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.
Acted in 60
2020s
- 2026
Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
Patrick Wams
- 2025
Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
Liebfried Cantor
- 2024
Die Augenzeugen
Sascha Wolf · 4 episodes
Raw Materials
Massenbach
- 2023
Morin
Konrad Dramm
- 2022
The Young Chief Winnetou
Freddy
Was Tun
Movie
- 2021
Hannes
Florian
12 Tage Sommer
Henning / Reinhold / Corvin
- 2020
2010s
- 2019
The Master Butcher
Fidelis’ Bruder
FrauMutterTier
Hannes
The Goldfish
Kursleiter
Onkel Wanja
Telegin
Falter
Dave
Das Leben meiner Tochter
Norbert Holler
- 2018
I love Everything I Hate About You
Kai
- 2017
Ein Sommer im Allgäu
Movie
Hindafing
Pfarrer Kraus · 12 episodes
- 2016
Mutter reicht's jetzt
Simon
Die Büffel sind los!
Landrat Häberle
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jan Hartog
- 2015
Another Kind of Light
Movie
Ein Sommer in Masuren
Zugschaffner
- 2014
Hirngespinster
Guido
Fräulein Else
Paul
- 2013
Hammer & Sichl
Polizist · 1 episode
Finsterworld
Movie
Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
Mr. Rupprecht
Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
Michel
Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
Bossler
Local Heroes
Lazlo
- 2012
The Pursuit of Unhappiness
Moritz
Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
German Sergeant
A Family of Three
Movie
- 2011
Sommer der Gaukler
Alfons
- 2010
The Last 30 Years
Robert Ostermeier
Die Hummel
Flo
Nanga Parbat
Hans Saler
2000s
- 2009
Hanna und die Bankräuber
Polizist Kranz
- 2008
Räuber Kneißl
Gendarm Hildebrand
- 2004
- 2003
1970s
- 1970
Directed 2
2020s
- 2022
Was Tun
Director
2010s
- 2018
MyBorder's JOYFence
Director
Wrote 1
2020s
- 2022
Was Tun
Writer
Produced 1
2020s
- 2022
Was Tun
Producer
Camera 1
2020s
- 2022
Was Tun
Camera Operator
Other crew 1
2010s
- 2018
MyBorder's JOYFence
Script
Sound 1
1990s
- 1990
Pink Palace, Paradise Beach
Sound Mixer
Appearances1
2010s
- 2017
Schildkröten Panzer
Narrator (voice)