Three evenings at The Knast · Berlin

TableToKink

From the table into kink.

Have your curiosity met by two people who do kink for a living. Bring the question you have never been able to ask: there are no taboos at this table, and nothing said at it leaves the room. Cocktails or dinner at The Knast, a former women's prison in Berlin with a bar in the old chapel. A Domina, a Dominus, and a conversation on power, desire, relationships and taboo. One rule: nothing is demonstrated, and nobody is touched.

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Who is at the table

Hekate and Master Samael

Hekate

Professional Domina · Psychologist · Sadist

Hekate is a full-time Domina specialising in impact play. She chose this work after a successful academic career and years in data science. She is a trained psychologist with a PhD in altered states of consciousness, and that training gives her a deep understanding of human desire, the dynamics of personality, and the psychological depth and value of suffering.

She works on the ground where pain turns into pleasure, that miracle (or hack) of the human nervous system. People come to her for subspace and for the pain high, and she designs the arc that safely takes them there.

She also offers D/s dynamics, work with couples, and individual D/s sessions at Studio ATRIUM in Berlin-Schöneberg. She founded and runs Soul Impact Berlin, where she regularly curates sold-out play parties for beginners and advanced BDSM players at Berlin's iconic venue, the IKSK.

When she isn't working, she is a single mum to her three children. She plays chess, goes to the opera, and loves every minute of her life.

Master Samael

Professional Dominus · Shibari artist · Founder

Twenty-six years in technology came first. He founded more than eight companies and projects of his own, and spent much of the rest as a manager inside the tech, digital media and advertising industries, which is a long apprenticeship in reading what people want and will not say out loud. He is now a full-time Dominus and a part-time AI founder, and the two halves inform each other more than anyone expects.

Shibari is the craft at the centre of the work: rope, and what it does to somebody who has never been held still before. Around it sit prison and military roleplay, interrogation and espionage scenarios that have run as long as forty-eight hours, and clinical roleplay.

In the scene since 2000, professional since 2015, under his own name and his own face, which is rarer in this profession than it sounds. Board member of BesD e.V., the German sex workers' professional association. He works at Studio ATRIUM, Germany's largest domina studio, and has done since it opened.

Hekate and Master Samael are colleagues with different training, different BDSM frameworks, and different upbringings. Between them they bring more than sixteen years of professional practice and decades of private BDSM experience, gathered individually or by working together. They have stories to share and experience to pass on.

“And how much of your work actually has to do with sex?”

“What do people ask for when they can ask for anything, far beyond ordinary sexuality?”

“Can you help us become kinkier as a couple?”

We'll give you real answers, not the ones your favourite AI chatbot would generate.

Master Samael has talked to taz, Die Zeit, Stern, Tagesspiegel, Deutschlandfunk Nova and Berlin Live. Read every word of it first. Then come and ask the thing none of them thought to.

Why you are here

What you actually want to know

How to tell your wife you want her to take charge, or to ask her to kneel, without it landing as a complaint about the last ten years. What two people in your particular arrangement could actually do, starting this month. Whether a relationship can be rebuilt around power without turning into a performance. The internet does not answer these. A forum argues about them, and an article changes the subject.

Ask us instead and you get it from both sides of the room, a woman's and a man's. You also get what is never written down: how Berlin's scene actually works and where somebody new would walk in, and what people ask for once the door is shut and they have stopped being careful, told as far as the people in it allowed us to tell it. All of it over cocktails or dinner, inside a building that would be worth the evening on its own.

Beyond the facade

Yes, we have stories. There are no names, and we keep absolute respect for discretion. Even so, we can tell you a great deal about the dark side of human desire, which turns out to be surprisingly colourful and lovingly twisted.

Storytelling for a small group has a magic of its own, different from anything shared in public. Depth begins in intimacy, because that is where real desires, real fears, and real resilience come to light. And on a quiet evening in Berlin, it may also be where the gates to your own path into BDSM open.

Nothing is demonstratedA conversation, never a show.

Nobody is touchedNot you, not anyone at the table.

Nobody is called onListening all evening is completely normal.

Nothing leaves the roomNo photos, no recording, no names.

Three evenings

A short one, a long one, and a table for two

Cocktail

Conversations on power, desire, relationships and taboo.

A walk through a former women's prison, then cocktails in the old chapel with a Domina and a Dominus, and two and a half hours of whatever you have never had anyone to ask.

Guests: 4 to 8
Per person: €99
Length: 2.5 hours
Includes: Tour and a cocktail

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Dinner

The longer conversation, and nothing is off the table.

Four hours at a table of no more than seven. The same tour and the same two people, with room to breathe: time to take a question as far as it goes.

Guests: 4 to 7
Per person: €249
Length: 4 hours
Includes: Tour, dinner and a cocktail

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Secret Table

An evening for two, and the only subject is the two of you.

Four exclusive hours with a Domina and a Dominus and nobody else at the table. Let us be your personal coaches and guides in entering kink together.

Guests: 2
Total: €899
Length: 4 hours
When: Your date

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The short evening

Cocktail

Who it suits: people who are curious about kink, who want to see beyond Berlin's sexy facade, or who simply want an exciting evening full of inspiration. No BDSM experience is needed, and there are no wrong questions.

We begin by telling you who we are and what we actually do, which takes the guesswork out of the room. Then a walk through the former prison: the wing, the cells, the old chapel that is now the bar. Some of the rooms were left exactly as they were, including the famous Böse Mädchen Zelle, the bad girls' cell.

After that it is time for your questions. If you would rather listen the whole way through, listen. Eight at the very most, so that everyone has the chance to be heard.

How the evening runs

19:00 to 19:15Introductions. Who we are, and what the work actually is.
19:15 to 19:45The tour: the wing, the cells, the chapel that is now the bar.
19:45 to 21:30Cocktails, and time for your questions. It goes where you take it.

There are question cards on the table to pick from if you would rather not start from nothing, and blank ones to write your own. Put either in the box and we read it out ourselves, with no name on it.

Ask us about

The question about kink or BDSM you have always wanted to ask but never had the right opportunity to
How to enter the colourful world of BDSM in a safe, sane and consensual way, with your partner or on your own
Berlin: which places are worth an evening, and which aren't worth your time
What a professional session really looks like, from the first message to the last minute, and why it costs what it costs
The shades of consent: how we operate when our job is to push boundaries, and all the ground between yes and no
The stories: the most extraordinary requests we have had, and the ones we are asked for most often
Which requests we decline, and why

Nothing is demonstrated. Nobody is touched. Nobody is called on. If sitting and listening makes you feel comfortable, we invite you to do so.

€99 per person covers the introduction, the tour, one cocktail and the evening. Any further drinks are ordered and paid at the bar, at the venue's prices.

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The long evening

Dinner

Who it suits: people who enjoy a long conversation on intimate subjects, couples who could use some guidance or inspiration about their own desires, and anyone who has been dabbling at the edges of the BDSM lifestyle and would like to go further in.

The tour, the introductions and the question cards, including the anonymous ones, are all here too. What the extra hours give you is depth: a question can be followed all the way down rather than handed on, the table is small enough that nothing has to be announced to the room, and dinner gives the evening the pace a conversation like this deserves.

How the evening runs

18:30 to 19:00The tour: the wing, the cells, the chapel that is now the bar.
19:00 to 19:45Cocktails in the old chapel. Introductions, and you tell us as much or as little as you want to.
19:45 to 22:30Dinner and your questions.

The bar runs on until 01:00 on a Friday, so nobody has to leave when the table is cleared.

What the extra hours buy

How to tell a partner what you really want when you have never said it out loud
How to figure out what you really want in kink
How kink can bring desire back into a long relationship
How two people on equal footing can enter a D/s dynamic without one of them shrinking
Submission from the submissive's side: the misconceptions, and whether you can be strong, independent and still want it
Why an hour of a professional BDSM session costs what it costs
What this work asks of the two of us personally, and what it takes out of us
Where the line sits between a fantasy worth having and one worth leaving alone, and the safety side of it
Behind the scenes at Studio ATRIUM: why and how does someone become a sex worker?

Nothing is demonstrated. Nobody is touched. Nobody is called on. If sitting and listening makes you feel comfortable, we invite you to do so.

€249 per person, the tour, dinner at The Knast's restaurant and one cocktail included. Further alcoholic drinks run on your own tab. Seven at the table at the very most.

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By arrangement

Secret Table

Enjoy four exclusive hours with a Domina and a Dominus and nobody else at the table. The tour of the former women's prison, cocktails in the old chapel, dinner in the restaurant, and a conversation that goes wherever the two of you need it to go. Planned around your schedule.

Who it suits: mostly couples. Let us be your personal coaches and guides in entering kink together, and in navigating it once you are there. Take the opportunity to ask us everything you have wanted to ask.

An evening without small talk, designed around your curiosity and your discretion. Use it for an igniting conversation, with your partner and with us. Ask us your intimate questions, addressed to both of us or to just one.

What a private evening can cover

A safe space to put a wish into words, perhaps for the first time
Discretion from booking until your departure, and beyond
Your most pressing personal questions, whether for both of us, for just one of us, or in a one-to-one conversation with one of us on your own
Techniques, safety and the practical side
How other couples actually do kink in the bedroom

Nothing is off limits

No question here is too odd, too explicit or too small, and none of it has to be dressed up as hypothetical. How do you find out what your partner is actually into. How do you bring kink into a dynamic that belongs to the two of you and nobody else. What is really done, how it is built up, and what it asks of both people. Ask, and you get the tips, the tricks and the honest answer rather than the polite one.

Nothing leaves the room

No photographs, no recording, no notes, no names. The bar runs a strict no-photo policy of its own, which suits us exactly. What is said in the prison stays in the prison.

How the evening runs

18:30 to 19:00The tour, just the four of us: the wing, the cells, the chapel that is now the bar.
19:00 to 19:45Cocktails in the bar. We tell you who we are and what the work actually is, and you tell us as much or as little as you want to.
19:45 to 22:30Dinner, then coffee, and your questions throughout, in your order, each one for as long as it holds.

Times shown for an 18:30 start. The date and the hour are yours to choose. If it would help for each of you to talk to one of us on your own for part of it, we do that, and then bring the table back together.

Nothing is demonstrated. Nobody is touched. Nothing is expected of you. What this is, in full: the tour, cocktails, dinner, and four hours of conversation, for the two of you.

€899 for the two of you, the tour, cocktails and dinner included. Alcoholic drinks run on your own tab. Dates by arrangement, with about three weeks' notice so the house can hold the table. The Knast is also a hotel; rooms are booked with the house directly.

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You book and pay right here, without leaving this page. Each date runs in one language, named with the date. Both shared evenings run from four guests; if a date does not reach four, we tell you at least a week beforehand and refund in full.

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How did you hear about us? Access or dietary needs (optional)

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The setting

The Knast

Half the reason to come is the building.

The Knast is a historic former women's prison in Berlin-Lichterfelde, and nobody gutted it. The heavy wooden cell doors are still on their hinges with the iron bolts still across them, the wing still runs its full length under a netted gallery, and the numbers are still lettered above the doors.

One cell was left exactly as it was, down to the fittings: a bed, a table, a chair, and a window too small to admit anything but a hard bright square of sky. The house calls it the Böse Mädchen Zelle, the bad girls' cell, and you can still walk into it.

The restaurant sits in what was the administrative wing and is a genuinely good one. The bar is in the old chapel. There are also event spaces, artists' studios and a hotel, so you can stay the night in a building nobody used to leave. There is a particular pleasure in enjoying your freedom on the other side of those bars, and you feel it all night.

The Knast is the venue, not the organiser. The rooms, the food and the drinks are theirs. The evening is ours.

Practical

THE KNAST · Söhtstraße 7 · 12203 Berlin-Lichterfelde
Restaurant: Tuesday to Saturday, 17:00 to 23:00.
Bar: Wednesday and Thursday 18:00 to 23:00, Friday and Saturday 18:00 to 01:00.
Rooms are booked directly with The Knast. theknast.de

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Good to know

Who can come

Over eighteens only. Alone, as a pair, or as a group of friends. There is no requirement to have any experience, and no advantage in pretending to.

Language

German and English are the only two languages these evenings run in. Every evening runs in one of them, named with the date. Almost nobody discusses something intimate comfortably in a second language, so pick the night that is yours.

Discretion

No photography and no recording, by us or by anyone at the table. What is said at the table stays at the table, and that binds the guests as well as us. We do not ask what you do for a living and we do not repeat what you say.

How the table works

Nobody is called on. If you want to put your own situation on the table there is room for it, and the table stays with you: questions go to the person who spoke, rather than everyone answering with a story of their own.

If you would rather not speak

There are question cards on the table to pick from, and a box for anything you would rather ask without your name on it. We read those out ourselves, and we answer them exactly as seriously.

Dress

Smart casual, nothing more specific. You are going out for the evening, not to a dungeon.

Food and access

Access needs go in with your booking, and dietary requirements too for the dinner, so the house can plan rather than improvise on the night.

If a date does not run

Both shared evenings run from four guests. If a date does not reach four, we tell you at least a week beforehand and refund in full.

Cancelling

You can cancel free of charge up to 72 hours before the evening. After that the ticket is lost, though you can send someone in your place. There is no refund if you do not come, and the evening starts on time.

Come with the question

Go home with the answer, and with two or three things you had not thought to ask.

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