Michael Kranz

Biography

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.

Movies & TV Shows

1. Inglourious Basterds (2009) — Herrman #3
2. War Horse (2011) — Junior German Officer
3. The White Ribbon (2009) — The Tutor
4. The Fifth Estate (2013) — Otto
5. Heidi (2015) — Mr. Kandidat
6. 13 Minutes (2015) — Franz Xaver Lechner
7. The Signal (2024) — Gregor
8. The Diary of Anne Frank (2016) — Jan Hartog
9. Scene of the Crime (1970) — Karsten
10. The Goldfish (2019) — Kursleiter
11. Rommel (2012) — Karl Daniel
12. Nanga Parbat (2010) — Hans Saler
13. Finsterworld (2013)
14. Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood (2020) — Alfons Urban
15. Rehragout-Rendezvous (2023) — Simon Steckenbiller
16. Murder by the Lake (2014) — Peter Wolfahrt
17. Hannes (2021) — Florian
18. Hindafing (2017) — Pfarrer Kraus
19. The Pursuit of Unhappiness (2012) — Moritz
20. The Master Butcher (2019) — Fidelis’ Bruder
21. Sams im Glück (2012) — Packer 1
22. The Young Chief Winnetou (2022) — Freddy
23. Hirngespinster (2014) — Guido
24. Das Leben meiner Tochter (2019) — Norbert Holler
25. Die Bergretter (2009) — Steffen Haflinger
26. Ein Sommer im Allgäu (2017)
27. Bettys Diagnose (2015) — Christoph Wendrup
28. Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann? (2013) — Mr. Rupprecht
29. 12 Tage Sommer (2021) — Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
30. Räuber Kneißl (2008) — Gendarm Hildebrand
31. Ein Sommer in Masuren (2015) — Zugschaffner
32. Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting (2025) — Liebfried Cantor
33. A Family of Three (2012)
34. Time We Lost (2025) — Lutz Schmauser
35. Another Kind of Light (2015)
36. Raw Materials (2024) — Massenbach
37. Kommissarin Lucas (2003) — Kai Benner
38. München 7 (2004) — Jörg
39. Was Tun (2022)
40. Sommer der Gaukler (2011) — Alfons

Directed

1. Was Tun (2022) — Director
2. MyBorder's JOYFence (2018) — Director