Acting
Michael Kranz
Since his father was the senior physician of a ward in the Bad Schussenried Centre for Psychiatry, he grew up with his three siblings in a service flat on the former hospital grounds. He attended the Studienkolleg St.Johann Blönried and graduated from there in 2003. At the age of 17, he lived for one year on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, where he graduated from Red Cloud High School in 2001. In 2008 he completed his acting education at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich. He studied at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film München and graduated there in March 2018 with a diploma in documentary film directing and television journalism. Internationally, Kranz was seen in the drama The White Ribbon (2009) by Michael Haneke, in Quentin Tarantino's war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielberg's Bridge of Spies. He became known to a wider television audience with the series Hindafing, in which he plays the city priest Kraus. The series was awarded the Austrian film prize Romy in 2018. His spot myBorder's joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018.
Filmography
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Film · 2026
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Film · 2025
Time We Lost
Film · 2025
Raw Materials
Film · 2024
The Signal
Series · 2024
Die Augenzeugen
Series · 2024
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Film · 2023
Morin
Film · 2023
Was Tun
Film · 2022
The Young Chief Winnetou
Film · 2022
12 Tage Sommer
Film · 2021
Hannes
Film · 2021
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
Series · 2020
Falter
Film · 2019
The Master Butcher
Film · 2019
Onkel Wanja
Film · 2019
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Film · 2019
The Goldfish
Film · 2019
FrauMutterTier
Film · 2019
I love Everything I Hate About You
Film · 2018
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Film · 2017
Schildkröten Panzer
Film · 2017
Hindafing
Series · 2017
Die Büffel sind los!
Film · 2016
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Film · 2016
Siblings
Film · 2016
The Diary of Anne Frank
Film · 2016
King Laurin
Film · 2016
Another Kind of Light
Film · 2015
13 Minutes
Film · 2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
Film · 2015
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Film · 2015
Heidi
Film · 2015
Bettys Diagnose
Series · 2015
Hirngespinster
Film · 2014
Fräulein Else
Film · 2014
Murder by the Lake
Series · 2014
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Film · 2013
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Film · 2013
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Film · 2013
The Fifth Estate
Film · 2013
Finsterworld
Film · 2013
Local Heroes
Film · 2013
Hammer & Sichl
Series · 2013
Sams im Glück
Film · 2012
A Family of Three
Film · 2012
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Film · 2012
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
Film · 2012
Rommel
Film · 2012
War Horse
Film · 2011
Sommer der Gaukler
Film · 2011
Die Hummel
Film · 2010
The Last 30 Years
Film · 2010
Nanga Parbat
Film · 2010
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
Film · 2009
Inglourious Basterds
Film · 2009
The White Ribbon
Film · 2009
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Film · 2009
Die Bergretter
Series · 2009
Die Bergretter
Series · 2009
Räuber Kneißl
Film · 2008
München 7
Series · 2004
Kommissarin Lucas
Series · 2003
Scene of the Crime
Series · 1970