There is a night I still think about.
I was standing in KitKatClub for the first time. A performer took the stage. The rope moved, the body surrendered, and something in me went completely quiet. I didn’t have words for what I was watching. I only knew I had never seen anything like it.
That performer later became my teacher. This Easter Sunday, April 5th, I return to that same stage to perform Shibari myself.
I can’t think of a better reason to spend Easter weekend in Berlin.
The Weekend.
If you’re in Berlin the first weekend of April, here is how I would move through it.
Thursday, 2nd April: Cabaret Cravache
Start with elegance.
Cabaret Cravache is a burlesque evening with a strong French sensibility: refined, playful, erotically charged, and genuinely artistic. The kind of night where beauty and desire arrive together and you can’t quite separate them.
Pauline from Sensuali organised it with a particular brightness in her eyes. Several people I trust have said the same: it stays with you.
One thing to know: this is not a ticketed show you simply buy your way into. You request access and wait for confirmation. That small gate makes it feel like something rare already.
More information: cabaret_cravache
Get your tickets here
Friday, 3rd April: Fourplay at KitKatClub
The night opens up.
Fourplay is one of the warmest, most unexpectedly welcoming nights at KitKat. The crowd is curious rather than performative, playful rather than predatory. Conversations start easily. Strangers become real connections. The energy has a lightness that is easy to fall in love with.
It is a beautiful introduction to what makes Berlin nightlife actually special: the genuine openness of people exploring something together.
Dress code applies and it is not optional. Check the requirements before arriving.
More information: fourplayberlin
Tickets at the dor but come early to avoid the long queue
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Sunday, 5th April: Hedoné at KitKatClub
This is the one.
Hedoné is normally a travelling sex-positive festival held in European castles. This year, both castles lost their licenses. Hedoné comes back to Berlin and lands in KitKat after a break from this venue.
The result is the international Hedoné community arriving from across the world, meeting the atmosphere that only KitKat can produce. Nobody knows exactly what that energy will be. That uncertainty is part of the appeal.
And yes, I will be performing Shibari on that stage.
The same stage where I once stood watching, speechless, not yet knowing what rope could mean. It feels like something is completing itself that night.
If you are there, come find me. I genuinely enjoy meeting the people who are drawn to these spaces.
Dress code: check it carefully. The door policy is real, and you do not want to miss this night over an outfit.
More information: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hedonev/1984812
Three nights. One city. One weekend that builds.
Cabaret Cravache brings elegance and artistic play.
Fourplay brings warmth and openness.
Hedoné brings something harder to name, a gathering of people from across the world who have travelled specifically for an experience they cannot get anywhere else.
Some weekends in Berlin are just nights out. Others leave a mark.
This is the second kind. (It can become literal if you ask kindly on the 5th at Hedoné.)
A note, if this world is new to you
KitKatClub is not a regular nightclub. Founded in 1994, it has spent more than 30 years becoming something that genuinely does not exist anywhere else in the world. It is a sex-positive space in the fullest sense: a place where desire, identity, and self-expression are not tolerated but celebrated, where the crowd on any given night might include artists, couples, queer communities, kink explorers, and people simply drawn to an atmosphere of radical openness. The music is electronic, and the energy is alive. There are multiple floors, a legendary pool, and the understanding that here, you are allowed to be exactly who you are. Different parties run almost every night of the week, each with its own character and crowd.
Hedoné is a different animal entirely. It is a sex-positive festival now in its 11th year, and it normally unfolds over three to four days inside European castles. It has its own travelling community, people who return year after year and cross the continent to be there. This Easter, for the first time, it arrives in Berlin and takes over KitKatClub for a night. The two worlds meeting for the first time is precisely what makes Sunday special.
Olivier Aether
I tie knots that whisper secrets, guide bodies into surrender, and hold space for the kind of intimacy that makes your skin hum long after the scene ends. Shibari, sacred sexuality, conscious power play, I live for the moments when eyes lock, breath catches, and trust becomes electric. I design sessions, workshops, and shows that invite you to discover new depths of desire. And when the candles are blown out, I’m still just a dad and a man who adores his partner with every fiber of his being. Come play with me, gently, fiercely and always with care.
