Michael Kranz
Actor
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.
As Director
Filmography
Inglourious Basterds
as Herrman #3 2009
War Horse
as Junior German Officer 2011
The White Ribbon
as The Tutor 2009
The Fifth Estate
as Otto 2013
Heidi
as Mr. Kandidat 2015
13 Minutes
as Franz Xaver Lechner 2015
The Diary of Anne Frank
as Jan Hartog 2016
The Goldfish
2019
Rommel
as Karl Daniel 2012
Finsterworld
2013
Nanga Parbat
as Hans Saler 2010
Rehragout-Rendezvous
as Simon Steckenbiller 2023
Hannes
as Florian 2021
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
as Moritz 2012
The Master Butcher
as Fidelis’ Bruder 2019
Sams im Glück
as Packer 1 2012
Hirngespinster
as Guido 2014