Frau Krüger: Real Person?

It appears so.

Here are some director's notes (from the official website of the movie):

"I spent eight years of my childhood in a boarding school where I met the person who opened up the world of art to me: the director of the "Schülerheim Krueger", an elderly lady, strict, very Prussian and amazingly down to earth - especially in such matters as the slaughtering of pigs, for example.

Every six months the village butcher arrived accompanied by an invariably sullen sow, which was then brought down to the cellar of the building and processed into sausages at an incredible speed. For lunch that day we ate fresh sausage soup, Metzelsupp’ as we call it in Hesse, and afterwards a Mozart Sonata was performed for us all.

I don’t remember which one, but it was always the same. Frau Krueger sat absent-mindedly at her rather battered instrument, stroking the keys. In her view, humans should not only thank the Lord but should also be grateful to their prey, and that these contradictory forces could only be celebrated with music.

There was something prehistoric about this. We boys felt like a group of young Neanderthals present at a ceremony where in the pale glow of the fire, our old shaman woman was painting the dead antelopes, slain with clubs, on the walls of our cave. As a result, I have never experienced classical music, or art in general as being anything bourgeois or middle class, even when it really was bourgeois or middle class music or art.

I have always been fascinated by the wildness, the power and also that inexplicable element that is at the core of all artistic endeavours. And sometimes it has also intervened in my life. In FOUR MINUTES I wanted to show how such an intervention could happen. That’s all I can say about it.

Chris Kraus"