Michael Kranz

Michael Kranz

Born 1983-04-17 (age 43) Ravensburg, Germany
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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.

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Known For

Inglourious Basterds
Inglourious Basterds

2009

as Herrman #3

Heidi
Heidi

2015

as Mr. Kandidat

War Horse
War Horse

2011

as Junior German Officer

The Fifth Estate
The Fifth Estate

2013

as Otto

The White Ribbon
The White Ribbon

2009

as The Tutor

13 Minutes
13 Minutes

2015

as Franz Xaver Lechner

Rommel
Rommel

2012

as Karl Daniel

The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank

2016

as Jan Hartog

Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat

2010

as Hans Saler

Time We Lost
Time We Lost

2025

as Lutz Schmauser

The Goldfish
The Goldfish

2019

as Kursleiter

Fräulein Else
Fräulein Else

2014

as Paul

The Master Butcher
The Master Butcher

2019

as Fidelis’ Bruder

Sams im Glück
Sams im Glück

2012

as Packer 1

King Laurin
King Laurin

2016

as Bauer Hans

Was Tun
Hannes
Hannes

2021

as Florian

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Ein Sommer in Masuren

2015

as Zugschaffner