KitKatClub

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KitKatClub Berlin

The KitKatClub in Berlin is a techno club .

concept

The club is known for a high level of sexual permissiveness. The club's door policy is very strict. This means that a considerable number of guests are turned away, especially if an announced dress code is not adhered to.

The club has gained national fame especially for the CarneBall Bizarre - KitKatClubnacht , which takes place regularly on Saturdays . Fetish costumes and partial or full nudity are very common at this party . Both straight and homosexual sex among those present is practiced and accepted relatively openly, as is masturbation . This has partly given the club the misleading public image of being a swingers club , but it is not. In fact, the usual happenings of a techno club predominate, with electronic music such as trance and house being played. The KitKat Club night on Sunday from 8 a.m. seamlessly turns into an after-hour party until 6 p.m., where the dress code is no longer so strict and which, according to the operator, is the “longest-serving after-hour in town”.

There is usually no such strict dress code on other evenings either. On Fridays, parties are organized in cooperation with various scene activists, including, for example, Goa parties.

Surname

The name of the club was inspired by the legendary Kit Kat Club from the musical Cabaret in Berlin in the 1920s and 1930s. The intention was to revive the exciting, shrill and extraordinary atmosphere of the club from the musical with its revealing action art in a contemporary way.

history

The founders, Simon Thaur , who was born in Carinthia , and his partner Kirsten Krüger, were influenced by the atmosphere of the Sunrise Beach parties in Goa in the late 1980s and the sexual opportunities that can be found in various SM clubs. Kirsten Krüger has been a bouncer in the club since the beginning.

The 1995 KitKatClub car at the Love Parade

In March 1994, the operators started a 14-day clubbing event in the turbine in Glogauer Strasse. The ensuing success later, after a stopover in the clubhouse , led to the takeover of the turbine and renaming to the club operation Kit Kat Club . The motto then as now was “Do what you want but stay in communication!” In addition to the “Crisco Club” for homosexuals, the Sunday afterhour “Freak Show” (now “Piep Show”) was legendary. The turbine became too small and in 1999 led to the move to the Metropol-Theater on Nollendorfplatz . Since 2001 the club has been in the Schöneberg malt factory . Since July 2007 the KitKatClub has been located in the Sage premises above the Heinrich-Heine-Straße underground station in Mitte.

Today the KitKatClub is known far beyond the borders of Berlin and Germany. He has been the scene of numerous television reports. Black light art became an important part of the extraordinary ambience . From 1995 to 2014 the Berlin artist Der Träumer painted erotic-psychedelic paintings for the club and thus shaped the colorful, visual design of the parties. As an "offshoot" of the club, the parties take place at irregular intervals of approx. 2 to 3 months in Cologne and Karlsruhe . In Cologne, the party was initially in the old waiting room and is currently (2017) in the Bootshaus disco .

On March 1st, 2014 the KitKatClub Berlin celebrated its 20th anniversary. Vigor Calma wrote a book about the early years of the KitKat and published it under the same name, KitKatClub . In 2019 a new edition of the novel was published in Berlin under the title Rausch .

In November 2019 it was reported that Sage and KitKatClub would have to leave the building on the corner of Köpenicker by June 2020, as their contract had been terminated. However, these reports turned out to be incomplete, as this only applied to the lease between the Sage operator (who sublet the premises to the operator of the KitKatClub) and the landlord. In the meantime, however, the operators of the KitKatClub had decided on a direct lease with the landlord.

As the first Berlin club, the KitKatClub has been broadcasting an audio and video stream live from the premises in Berlin-Mitte and connected locations since it was closed as part of the corona pandemic. The site offers the opportunity to support the continued existence of the club through donations and purchases.

Carneval Erotica

The KitKatClub received political attention in 2001 as the main organizer of the techno demonstration Carneval Erotica . Among other things, this campaigned for a reform of the Restaurant Act of 1920, sexual liberalization and a positive relationship with hedonism . On leaflets from individual counter-demonstrators, they warned against “free sex as a stamp on the certificate of our downfall”. In public statements, the solidarity Carneval Erotica with the banned on the same day Fuckparade . The demonstration took place on July 14, 2001 and moved with an undisclosed number of participants and tens of thousands of spectators across Kurfürstendamm . After the first event, no further Carneval Erotica was approved by the public order office.

German Fetish Ball

In 2018 and 2019 one event of the German Fetish Ball took place in the KitKatClub.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.kitkatclub.org/Home/Club/Index.html
  2. ↑ These uptight young people. In: Berliner-Zeitung , June 15, 2011
  3. ↑ For twelve years the Kit-Kat-Club has had great success with a simple concept: Public sex in all conceivable variations / series, Part 17: Welcome to the Cabaret. In: Berliner-Zeitung , December 8, 2006
  4. ↑ KitKatClub Berlin on page clubguideberlin.de
  5. ↑ 20 years KitKatClub - visit to the hedonist temple. In: Tagesspiegel Kultur , accessed on March 3, 2014.
  6. ↑ Vigor Calma in an interview ( Memento from March 3, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), publisher's website GiADAs.de, accessed on March 3, 2014.
  7. ^ Vigor Calma: Intoxication in Berlin . Ed .: Vigor Calma. 4th edition. 2019, ISBN 978-1-07-046997-3 , pp. 475 .
  8. ↑ KitKat and Sage-Club have to close. In: Berliner Zeitung. November 28, 2019, accessed on November 28, 2019 (German).
  9. ↑ KitKat can probably stay in old rooms after all, Der Tagesspiegel from December 16, 2019
  10. ↑ Jula Reichard: Hot short trip to the capital . Tatoo Erotica, August / September 2019, pp. 84–91

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