Michael Kranz profile
Actor profile

Michael Kranz

17th April 1983 Ravensburg, Germany Acting

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.

52 Movies 11 TV Shows 63 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Morin poster
Morin 22nd November 2023 as Konrad Dramm
Hannes poster
Hannes 25th November 2021 as Florian
Heidi poster
Heidi 10th December 2015 as Mr. Kandidat
Rommel poster
Rommel 1st November 2012 as Karl Daniel
War Horse poster
War Horse 25th December 2011 as Junior German Officer