The current iteration of the KitKatClub is located at Brückenstraße 1 in Berlin-Mitte, but its roots lie in the 1990s techno explosion. Founded by Austrian pornographic filmmaker Simon Thaur and his partner Kirsten Krüger, the club opened in March 1994 in a Kreuzberg venue that is now defunct. However, the conceptual spirit—the true "avant-garde" code—was borrowed from a much older source: the fictional Kit Kat Club from the musical Cabaret , which depicted the shrill, provocative, and pre-Nazi artistic excesses of the 1920s.