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

The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Rommel
Rommel

2012

as Karl Daniel

Time We Lost
Time We Lost

2025

as Lutz Schmauser

Nanga Parbat
Nanga Parbat

2010

as Hans Saler

The Goldfish
13 Minutes
13 Minutes

2015

as Franz Xaver Lechner

Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
King Laurin
King Laurin

2016

as Bauer Hans

The Diary of Anne Frank
The Diary of Anne Frank

2016

as Jan Hartog

Finsterworld
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Rehragout-Rendezvous

2023

as Simon Steckenbiller

Sams im Glück
Sams im Glück

2012

as Packer 1

The Young Chief Winnetou
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Hannes
Hannes

2021

as Florian