
Acting
Born April 17, 1983 · 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 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.

Der Garmisch Krimi - Wolfsmord
2026

Time We Lost
2025

Leibniz – Chronicle of a Lost Painting
2025

Raw Materials
2024

Morin
2023

Rehragout-Rendezvous
2023

The Young Chief Winnetou
2022

Was Tun
2022

Hannes
2021

12 Tage Sommer
2021

The Master Butcher
2019

FrauMutterTier
2019

The Goldfish
2019

Onkel Wanja
2019

Falter
2019

Das Leben meiner Tochter
2019

I love Everything I Hate About You
2018

Ein Sommer im Allgäu
2017

Schildkröten Panzer
2017

Mutter reicht's jetzt
2016

Die Büffel sind los!
2016

King Laurin
2016

The Diary of Anne Frank
2016

Siblings
2016

Heidi
2015

Another Kind of Light
2015

Ein Sommer in Masuren
2015

13 Minutes
2015
Der Andi ist wieder da
2015

Hirngespinster
2014

Fräulein Else
2014

Finsterworld
2013

The Fifth Estate
2013

Wer hat Angst vorm weissen Mann?
2013

Das Märchen von der Prinzessin, die unbedingt in einem Märchen vorkommen wollte
2013

Achtung Polizei! - Alarm um 11 Uhr 11
2013

Local Heroes
2013

The Pursuit of Unhappiness
2012

Rommel
2012

Sams im Glück
2012

Who's Afraid of the Big Black Wolf?
2012

A Family of Three
2012

War Horse
2011

Sommer der Gaukler
2011

The Last 30 Years
2010
Die Hummel
2010

Nanga Parbat
2010

The White Ribbon
2009

Inglourious Basterds
2009

Hanna und die Bankräuber
2009
Zwei Zimmer, Balkon
2009

Räuber Kneißl
2008