Kit Kat Klub

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The Kit Kat Klub is the decadent, Weimar-era Berlin nightclub that serves as the central setting and symbolic backdrop for the musical and film "Cabaret."

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Kit Kat Klub canonical 7
Kit Kat Girls 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional location
fictional nightclub
adaptedFromContext Goodbye to Berlin (novel) by Christopher Isherwood
linked to: Goodbye to Berlin

I Am a Camera (play)
appearsIn Cabaret (1972 film)
Cabaret (musical)
associatedWorkCreator Fred Ebb
Joe Masteroff
John Kander
audienceWithinFiction Berlin nightlife patrons
featuresCharacter Emcee
Kit Kat Girls
linked to: Kit Kat Klub

Sally Bowles
featuresPerformanceType cabaret
satirical acts
song-and-dance numbers
genreContext film musical
musical theatre
hasTheme decadence
political unrest
rise of Nazism
sexual liberation
locatedInFictional Berlin
Weimar Republic
narrativeFunction commentary on main plot
framing device for musical numbers
notableSongContext If You Could See Her
Money (Money)
Two Ladies
Willkommen
settingOf Cabaret (1972 film)
Cabaret (musical)
symbolizes decadence of Weimar-era Berlin
escapism from political reality
fragility of liberal society
moral ambiguity
timePeriodFictional early 1930s
tone darkly comic
hedonistic
increasingly menacing
usedAs metaphor for collapsing democracy
microcosm of Weimar society
visualStyle dim lighting
provocative costumes
smoky atmosphere

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Referenced by (8)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Kit Kat Klub featuresCharacter Kit Kat Girls
linked to: Kit Kat Klub
Willkommen setting Kit Kat Klub
Willkommen fictionalLocation Kit Kat Klub
Sally Bowles settingVenue Kit Kat Klub
The Emcee employeedAt Kit Kat Klub
The Emcee associatedWith Kit Kat Klub