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KitKatClub
Kitty
KitKatClub Berlin
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LocationMitte, Berlin, Germany
Coordinates52°30′40″N 13°25′00″E / 52.51111°N 13.41667°E / 52.51111; 13.41667
OwnerSimon Thaur & Kirsten Krüger
TypeNightclub
OpenedMarch 1994

The KitKatClub is a legendary night club in Berlin opened in March 1994 by Austrian porn film maker Simon Thaur and his life partner Kirsten Krüger.

Overview

The Kit Kat Club is famous all over Europe and even beyond because of its unique concept bringing together very good techno / trance music to decadent, bacchanalian, sexually uninhibited parties. The motto of the club is “Do what you want but stay in communication”.

What makes the club so special and infamous is that the guests are allowed to have sex all over the venue without having to justify themselves. A strict dress code needs to be respected in order to get into the KitKatClub door most of the time being held by Kirsten herself, her door policy being very strict. Dresscode means fetish, latex & leather, kinky, stylish, glamour...originality pays. The venue consists of 3 dancefloors and a big outdoor area with a pool. The venue is decorated with ultra-violet light and fluorescent colour paintings done by the Berlin based painter 'Der Träumer'. The KitKatClub became famous after being exposed in many German TV shows.

It has to be noticed that through the years the sexual content of the KitKat tends to become softer, enjoying music and dancing being now more important for the guests than actually having sex next to the dance floor. In the 1990s it used to be a much "harder" club than it is now.

Cosmopolitan night club for civilized people

The guests of the "Kitty" (as most of the berliners like to name the club) are not only heterosexual, a large number of gay men also spend their weekends in the club, which makes the crowd very diverse and unique. The Kitkatclub stands for an avantgarde idea of clubbing where all social boundaries are falling, it's not a straight club nor a gay club, you meet rich and poor people, young and old, ugly and beautiful, it's not about sexual orientation but only about freedom, tolerance and hedonism. Another important detail is the amount of regular guests who have a strong feeling to belong to the KitkatClub community and who hardly ever go clubbing somewhere else in Berlin.

Through the years the Kitkatclub became a notorious Berlin institution, the Kitty (and the many clubs it has spawned) definitely has enhanced Berlin as a must-go destination for every clubbers. That favor hasn’t always been returned by the city. While Berlin was under a conservative regime in 2001, the club had been harassed by the police and was charged with "invitation to public intercourse," a crime that had been on the books since the Dark Ages of pre-World war II.

Four locations

New location - Brücken Straße
Former location - Bessemer Straße

The club moved four times since its opening in 1994. It all began in the Glogauerstrasse in the Kreuzberg district in the former Turbine, in 1999 the KitKat was then located in one of the biggest night club of Berlin, the Metropol at Nollendorfplatz. In 2001, a vast location was found in the gay district Schöneberg in the area of the "Schultheiss-Brauerei" / Bessemer Straße, the club stayed there during 7 years, beginning of July 2007 it moved then to the SageClub in the Mitte district (Brücken Straße 1), very close to the famous techno club Tresor. This is an important change for Berlin's clubbing landscape as from summer 2007, Berghain, Tresor and KitKatClub who made Berlin worldwide notorious for its vibrant nightlife, are now located very close to each other.

Non-stop party

The KitKat party program presents more or less the same pattern of events for Friday nights in the new location like at the former place at Bessemer Straße. While Saturday nights, the famous "Carneball Bizarre" parties continue to take place, the Friday night events are being organized by other eventmakers and groups, closely related to Kirsten and Thaur, just as it used to be during the last years in the old location. What is changing however is the after-hour-party during Sunday. Under the name of "Relapse", the staff has changed the concept. The former "PiepShow" after-hour is now given the 4th Friday night of the month. On Thursday night the Sage Club group still uses the location.

Record label & Music concept

Through the years a musical style has developed that some guests refer to as the “kittysound”. To give this style a platform a KitKat record label has been founded in 2005 and two CDs have been released. "Hedonistic night life in Berlin" and "The Piep Show compilation #0". When the KitKat opened its doors in 1994 the musical profile of the club was mainly trance/goa, but through the years the owners have opened the club to a much larger choice of electronic music, what is played today in the KitKatclub can be heard everywhere else from techno to house and electro.

Name origin

The name KitKatClub is inspired by the legendary frivolous Berliner night club featured in the American musical Cabaret. Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret” was set in Berlin in the early 1930s, against the backdrop of the uprising of the Nazi party, at a burlesque theater called the “Kit Kat Club”. Today’s KitKatClub is even more of a Berlin icon. The original Kit-Kat Club (sometimes spelled Kit-Cat Club) was an 18th Century English liberal political society.

52°30′40″N 13°25′00″E / 52.51111°N 13.41667°E / 52.51111; 13.41667

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