KitKatClub

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Kit Kat club Berlin

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.

1 Overview
2 Cosmopolitan night club for civilized people
3 Non-stop party
4 Record label & Music concept
5 Name origin
6 External links

[edit] Overview

The Kit Kat Club is famous all over Europe and even beyond because of its unique concept mixing 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 has to be respected in order to get in the KitKatClub the door most of the time being hold by Kirsten herself, her policy being very strict. It goes from fetish, latex & leather, kinky, stylish, glamour...originality pays. The club is decorated with ultra-violet light and fluorescent colour paintings done by the Berlin based painter 'Der Träumer'. The KitKat 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 the music and dancing being now more important for the guests than actually having sex next to the dance floor. Though in the 1990s it used to be a much "harder" club than it is now, it's softer image is probably due to the change of mentality in Berlin, with the German capital not being as wild and crazy anymore as it was in the 1980s and 1990s.

[edit] Cosmopolitan night club for civilized people

The guests of the "Kitty" (as most Berliners like to name the club) are not only heterosexual, a large number of gay people 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.

The club changed of location three times since its opening in 1994. It all began in the Glogauerstrasse in the Kreuzberg district in the former Turbine, then in 1999 the KitKat was located in 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" / Bessemerstrasse 2.14, it is still located there today even though the club is trying to find a better located venue in Berlin since quiet a long time now.

Through the years the Kitkatclub became a strong Berlin institution, 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.

[edit] Non-stop party

The program of the club goes from Friday to Sunday including three different parties. The Friday is dedicated to a different party every week, the Saturday night is called "Carneball Bizarre" and continues with the after hour called "Piep Show" from 8am on Sunday morning. In the summer during the after hour the clubbers can also chill out in the sand garden or enjoy the pool located behind the building. From Saturday night until Sunday late-afternoon the venue almost never gets empty. Once a year the Kitkatclub is also hosting the world famous gay party Hustla Ball.

[edit] 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 in 2005 a KitKat record label has been founded and two CDs have been released. "Hedonistic night life in Berlin" and "The Piep Show compilation #0". When the KitKat started in 1994 the musical style 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 can be heard today in the KitKatclub can be heard everywhere else from techno to house and electro.

[edit] Name origin

The name KitKatClub is inspired by the legendary Berliner night club featured in the American musical comedy Cabaret. Bob Fosse’s “Cabaret” was set in Berlin’s Roaring Twenties at a burlesque theater called the “Kit Kat Club”. Today’s KitKatClub is even more of a Berlin icon.