All About KitKat Berlin

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Berlin, Germany

Club / Indoor & Outdoor / S – 500-2k

City

Electronic

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International, Pool, Alternative

Casual

For an unforgettable night of electronic bliss, KitKat is the preeminent clubbing experience in all of Berlin – a place where cosmopolitan decadence and transcendental hedonism merge as one.

With two decades of successful party planning, KitKat club made its grand debut in 1994. The founders, Simon Thaur and his partner, envisioned an unique nightlife experience that blended electrifying techno sets with thrilling sexcapades.

KitKat welcomes everyone with open arms, offering a plethora of options to create an unforgettable night. Every week, tourists and locals alike gather on the dance floor for a nightlife extravaganza.

The KitKat nightclub plays a defining role in the techno scene of Berlin, and it’s an absolute must-see for any seasoned clubber.

Here is everything you need to know about KitKat Berlin.

KitKat wasn’t an instant success 

Who are you when the lights go off, clothes drop to the floor, and bullet-hard techno beats reign supreme? That’s a rhetorical question where Berlin’s KitKat raises its hand to answer.

Built upon a legacy of hedonism and lustfulness, the sex-positive temple opened its arms to Berlin’s birds of paradise in 1994.

As the brainchild of Austrian porn movie maker Simon Thaur and his life partner Kirsten Krüger, KitKat club was born to shatter moral ground rules that bottle up revelers’ true colors enough to put them in the wallflower corner. 

With a “do what you want but stay in communication” mantra, KitKat was hunting for a new definition for Berlin’s libertinism.

In the aftermath of the Berlin Wall’s fall in 1989, party animals were thirsty for a cocktail of freedom, acid-infused beats, and anarchic eroticism. 

With Thaur’s unapologetic debauchery hovering over the music mecca, KitKat was happy to comply. But like the “be careful what you wish for” saying, patrons were unprepared to cherish what KitKat had to offer. 

For its first seven parties, the Berlinesque sex mecca couldn’t surpass the 25 attendees benchmark. In an interview with Playful, Thaur says that on a Wednesday night, he invited everybody he knew and saw – even strangers from the streets – to KitKat’s party for free. 

It might have been its heart-racing minimal tech beats, the carefree hysteria, or the fact that banging on the dance floor was allowed – we will never know. What we know for sure is that KitKat never went back to its mere twinkle status. 

Although through the decades it kept a low-profile, KitKat club is dubbed as one of Berlin’s iconic venues.

Just like the best things in life, KitKat found shelter in central Berlin

Throughout its two-decade-long history, KitKat club thought it found its forever home multiple times.

After three misses and one win, the Berlin club permanently moved to Mitte – the city’s first and most central borough – in 2007, just a stone’s throw away from the electronic temple, Tresor.

Embodying two conflicting universes – an underworld of tunnel passages and abandoned bunkers and its earthbound link of museums, shops, and culturally-vibrant hubs – Mitte is a labyrinth of neoclassical architectural jewels, street art, and clubbing ventures. 

The posh Mitte acts as a bridge between the past and the present – that’s its allure. Residents live in Soviet era buildings, while tourists flock to techno havens, making Mitte a testament to cultural shifts. 

As soon as you set foot in the high-spirited neighborhood, your eyes will be instantly glued to fascinating museums, historical architecture, and laid-back crowds. Must-visit stops in the area include Museum Island, an ensemble of five museums, the iconic Berliner Dom cathedral, and the Berlin Wall Memorial. 

Yet not everything is historically-rich. Little hole-in-the-wall bars, modest residential areas, and experimental art spaces have all taken over the vibrant neighborhood. In Mitte, whatever you wish for, having it all is more of a reality than a life aspiration.

The Berlin club is not the skeevy dungeon you’d imagine 

One would translate Berlin’s kinky subculture into cave-complex nightclubs, where women wear nothing but duct tape and young Apollos sync their sex sessions with minimal tech sounds. 

But KitKat Berlin doesn’t fall into that cachet. If the Berlin club was a persona, it would be a hippie-meets-notorious individual who emanates nothing but a lascivious magnetism. 

Housed in a sprawling two-floored building, the Berlin sex club spans three dance floors, half a dozen lounges, and a dark room. The icing on the cake is the outside space, which features a Tiki-themed poolside area and an illuminated pool.

But no matter how mind-boggling its industrial incarnation is, the euphoric nonsense that sets KitKat club apart from the sex clubbing society is the decor. Erotic and provocative, the art soaking KitKat’s walls has a slight Andy Warhol flair to it.

Painted by Berlin-based artist Vigor Calma, the ultraviolet and fluorescent artworks make the fetish temple an aphrodisiac version of Alice in Wonderland. 

Quite antithetical to the sex club’s ethos, the decor oozes one vibe – hippyish. Reminiscent of good, ol’ raves with acid-trip typography, KitKat makes its industrial incarnation funkier with neon graffiti and circus-like elements. 

Away from this kaleidoscopic beam, the dance floor cages, and vintage sofas, there is a space tailored for sexual self-indulgence. Far from being the go-to spot for the prudish and faint-hearted, the top floor is accessed via an iron staircase.

KitKat is the epitome of the ultimate techno temple 

When it saw daylight for the first time, Berlin’s KitKat music repertoire was a mix of classical trance. Over the years, the club changed its beat-fuelled language. 

Nowadays, the sex-positive mecca shelters anything and everything that would be labeled as panty-wetting techno.

International and homegrown acts take over KitKat’s DJ booth with their music portofolio, making sure everybody experiences their sex soundtrack.

Be it a sleek modern vibe, a bunker-like clubbing session, or a sweat-dripping rave, KitKat is a pro at bridging the gap between traditional underground and new generation beats.

It’s facade absorbs air pollutants 

On World Environment Day in 2021, KitKat replaced its fetish-driven ethos for a second and joined an environmentally-responsible philosophy. By partnering with a company battling e-waste, the clubbing destination kicked started a refurbishing project that would fight urban pollution. 

According to TraxMag, Berlin-based illustrator Viktoria Cichoń used an ecological paint that produces photocatalysis in the presence of solar energy.

Odourless and non-toxic, the pigment absorbs atmospheric pollution while destroying air bacteria. Whoever passes by KitKat’s premises can kiss respiratory infections goodbye. 

But the icing on the cake is Viktoria’s creative direction, which struck a balance between KitKat’s sex appeal and eco responsibility.

Scattered across a black background, a plethora of colorful electronic devices in a Kamasutra form remind passers-by that second-hand gadgets should be in our pockets, not in our trash.

Simon Thaur missed only 19 KitKat nights since its 1994 debut

In a club where you are free to have intercourse across dance floors and dark rooms – but never must feel obliged to – it is not difficult to see why KitKat Berlin is a sought-after partying temple. But not everything stands in its kinky delirium and whimsical dance floor.

Part of its cosmopolitan lust is thanks to Thaur’s perfectionism. In the Playful interview, the club’s co-founder affirmed that he never wanted the mood to be off – so there he was, in KitKat’s pleasure-seeking corners almost every night for the past 18 years. We say almost because he missed a total of 19 KitKat parties in nearly two decades. 

Although KitKat club embodies a wide array of metaphors about sexual exploration, there is one that takes the cake.

In a world where everything changes periodically, time at KitKat Berlin stays still. On a background fuelled by trance, techno and half-naked crowds, everyday life seems to dissolve, while unhinged delights spring up instead.