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Michael Kranz
Ravensburg, Germany
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 grou…
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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.
Filmography
Movies and shows, newest first
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2026
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Movie Patrick Wams
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2025
Time We Lost
Movie Lutz Schmauser
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2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Movie Liebfried Cantor
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2024
Die Augenzeugen
TV show Sascha Wolf
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2024
Raw Materials
Movie Massenbach
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2024
The Signal
TV show Gregor
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2023
Morin
Movie Konrad Dramm
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2023
Rehragout-Rendezvous
Movie Simon Steckenbiller
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2022
The Young Chief Winnetou
Movie Freddy
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2022
Was Tun
Movie
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2021
Hannes
Movie Florian
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2021
12 Tage Sommer
Movie Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
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2020
Oktoberfest: Beer and Blood
TV show Alfons Urban
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2019
The Master Butcher
Movie Fidelis’ Bruder
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2019
FrauMutterTier
Movie Hannes
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2019
The Goldfish
Movie Kursleiter
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2019
Onkel Wanja
Movie Telegin
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2019
Falter
Movie Dave
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2019
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Movie Norbert Holler
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2018
MyBorder's JOYFence
Movie Director
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2018
I love Everything I Hate About You
Movie Kai
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2017
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Movie
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2017
Schildkröten Panzer
Movie Narrator (voice)
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2017
Hindafing
TV show Pfarrer Kraus
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2016
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Movie Simon
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2016
Die Büffel sind los!
Movie Landrat Häberle
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2016
King Laurin
Movie Bauer Hans
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2016
The Diary of Anne Frank
Movie Jan Hartog
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2016
Siblings
Movie Niels
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2015
Heidi
Movie Mr. Kandidat
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2015
Another Kind of Light
Movie
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2015
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Movie Zugschaffner
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2015
13 Minutes
Movie Franz Xaver Lechner
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2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
Movie Michael Schäfer
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2015
Bettys Diagnose
TV show Christoph Wendrup
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2014
Murder by the Lake
TV show Peter Wolfahrt
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2014
Hirngespinster
Movie Guido
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2014
Fräulein Else
Movie Paul
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2013
Hammer & Sichl
TV show Polizist
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2013
Finsterworld
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