DOKTOR KITTYKAT charts the complex legacy of the mysterious and doomed Von Kittykat family: European cult figure and KLAUSHAUS art icon Klaus Von Kittykat (1945-1995) and daughters Katje and Veronika of famed Berlin underground rock act DOKTOR KITTYKAT. Originally from Karl-Marx-Stadt, East Germany, Klaus was more invisible force than material presence with his rare public appearances on the mid 1960's West Berlin art scene, at which time his elliptical design sense and baffling pranks resulted in pivotal works such as Kadaver absteigend die Treppe and Das Rektum Papiere. KLAUSHAUS attracted artists of different disciplines who came together to create a revolutionary and sarcastic new art and ended, predictably, with the usual jealous skirmishes that typified the era. By the seventies Klaus had fled to New York, collaborating with the likes of American astronaut Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and avant-garde group THE STARS. The 1980's saw the emergence of the fascinating and silver-clad Von Kittykat sisters on the Berlin underground punk scene in the form of DOKTOR KITTYKAT. Top-selling album Räumfahrzeugflugzeugenglück (1985) was followed by sold out shows around the world and artistic collaborations late Austrian rock legend Falco as well as international superstars Bowie and Lionel Richie. But by 1987 the Von Kittykat sisters were nowhere to be found. Suggestions were made that the waifish "East Germans" had been mere opportunists capitalizing on Klaus's notorious indifference to the realities of public life. Drug rumors circulated, based on DOKTOR KITTYKAT's notorious association with aristocratic and much-hated Bavarian synth player Baron Vincenzzo Shockhausen who was found dead in some geraniums in 1988 (an incident strangely mirrored two decades later in the subsequent "suicide" of American billionaire and KITTYKAT record producer Alex Vampleton in 2011.) "Found" photos of Veronika's own supposed death in a Wyoming bathtub in 1989 complete...

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