It’s 5am in Berlin’s KitKat club, and the half-naked crowd is dancing furiously to a deep bass track as a woman performs energetic oral sex on a very happy man reclining to my right. In the centuries since, and particularly in the KitKat club, Berliners have made it a point of honour to live up to the king’s “each to their own” mantra. Now the KitKat club’s Munich landlord has cancelled the lease to June 2020 and the Griessmuehle is in danger of imminent closure. One recent study suggested Berlin clubs have a combined annual turnover of €168 million. Long enough, many fear, that Berlin’s club culture and party reputation is now taken for granted.

Source: The Irish Times February 01, 2020 06:01 UTC