Alexander Sängerlaub
Alexander Sängerlaub is the director and founder of futur eins. Alex prefers to take a holistic approach to digital public spheres and the question of how the utopia of an informed society can be achieved.
This question shapes the topics he works on: From 2017 to 2021, he helped build the “Strengthening Digital Public Sphere” department at the Berlin-based think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (now: Interface) and led projects on disinformation (“Fake News”), fact-checking, and digital information and news literacy. For the study “Quelle: Internet?” he was awarded the Hans Bausch Media Prize of SWR and the University of Tübingen in 2022, together with Anna-Katharina Meßmer and Leonie Schulz.
In 2014, he founded the utopian politics magazine Kater Demos and led the editorial team & creation until 2019. The magazine was Germany’s first constructive political magazine. Before that, he was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin in journalism & communication studies. For the Berlin agency Blumberry, he worked on the 2013-2014 Bundestag election campaign for Angela Merkel, among other things.
As director of futur eins, he strategically advises other organizations over extended periods: In 2024, he conceptualized the show “Fake Train” with Rezo with the Federal Agency for Civic Education. In 2022, he returned to constructive journalism as “Program Director for the Future of Journalism” for the Bonn Institute. In 2021, he supported reset.tech with their analyses and campaigns against disinformation in the Bundestag election campaign.
Resilience of the information society, disinformation, information and news literacy, constructive journalism: These are the topics he is in demand for as a speaker (e.g., Goethe Institutes in San Francisco & Seattle, 1014 New York City, Streitraum, re
(2022, 2023), ARD/ZDF Media Academy, SWR, MDR, Max Planck Society), as a moderator (e.g., EU Commission), and as an expert (e.g., German Bundestag).
He studied journalism, psychology, and political communication at the Free University of Berlin and taught at the University of the Arts, the University of Applied Sciences for Engineering and Economics in Berlin, the Bundeswehr University in Munich, and the Free University of Berlin. His never-written dissertation titled “Who needs journalists when you can have robots?” on journalism and artificial intelligence was always sidelined by life (aka Kater Demos).
