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.

Known For

Scene of the Crime

Karsten

Bettys Diagnose

Christoph Wendrup

Inglourious Basterds

Herrman #3

Die Bergretter

Steffen Haflinger

München 7

Jörg

Kommissarin Lucas

Kai Benner

The Signal

Gregor

Murder by the Lake

Peter Wolfahrt

Filmography

Year	Movie	Role
2025	Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting	Liebfried Cantor
2024	Raw Materials	Massenbach
2023	Rehragout-Rendezvous	Simon Steckenbiller
2023	Morin	Konrad Dramm
2022	Was Tun
2022	The Young Chief Winnetou	Freddy
2021	12 Tage Sommer	Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
2021	Hannes	Florian
2019	Falter	Dave
2019	The Master Butcher	Fidelis’ Bruder
2019	Onkel Wanja	Telegin
2019	Das Leben meiner Tochter	Norbert Holler
2019	The Goldfish
2019	FrauMutterTier
2018	I love Everything I Hate About You	Kai
2017	Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017	Schildkröten Panzer	Narrator (voice)
2016	Die Büffel sind los!	Landrat Häberle
2016	Mutter reicht's jetzt	Simon
2016	Siblings	Niels
2016	The Diary of Anne Frank	Jan Hartog
2016	King Laurin	Bauer Hans
2015	Another Kind of Light
2015	13 Minutes	Franz Xaver Lechner
2015	Der Andi ist wieder da	Michael Schäfer
2015	Ein Sommer in Masuren	Zugschaffner
2015	Heidi	Mr. Kandidat
2014	Hirngespinster	Guido
2014	Fräulein Else	Paul
2013	Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte	Michel
2013	Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11	Bossler
2013	Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?	Mr. Rupprecht
2013	The Fifth Estate	Otto
2013	Finsterworld
2012	Sams im Glück	Packer 1
2012	A Family of Three
2012	The Pursuit of Unhappiness	Moritz
2012	Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?	German Sergeant
2012	Rommel	Karl Daniel
2011	War Horse	Junior German Officer
2011	Sommer der Gaukler	Alfons
2010	Die Hummel	Flo
2010	The Last 30 Years	Robert Ostermeier
2010	Nanga Parbat	Hans Saler
2009	Zwei Zimmer, Balkon	Niklas
2009	Inglourious Basterds	Herrman #3
2009	The White Ribbon	The Tutor
2009	Hanna und die Bankräuber	Polizist Kranz
2008	Räuber Kneißl	Gendarm Hildebrand
	Rita und Hans	Verkäufer
	An der Grenze

Year	TV Show	Role
2024	The Signal	Gregor
2024	Eyewitness	Sascha Wolf
2020	Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood	Alfons Urban
2017	Hindafing	Pfarrer Kraus
2015	Bettys Diagnose	Christoph Wendrup
2014	Murder by the Lake	Peter Wolfahrt
2013	Hammer & Sichl	Polizist
2009	Die Bergretter	Steffen Haflinger
2004	München 7	Jörg
2003	Kommissarin Lucas	Kai Benner
1970	Scene of the Crime	Karsten