Michael Kranz

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 StJohann 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 Tarantinos war film Inglourious Basterds and in Steven Spielbergs 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 myBorders joyFence was awarded the First Steps Award and the Porsche Award in 2018