Lotte Soßna

Lotte’s greatest strength is her openness and analytical curiosity. Whenever she interacts with people, she always does so with an eye for social dynamics. Her belief that there is a rational path to the best possible world drives her to bring together as many perspectives as possible in order to learn from them. Her research takes place less in libraries and more in personal conversations. She sees every unfamiliar situation as an opportunity for growth.

In her search for new questions and answers, she is studying at Freie Universität Berlin (Philosophy & Communication Studies). Alongside she organises and maintains spaces for education and arts, both within collectives and in extracurricular education and care for young people. Since 2019, she has been active with the associations Jugendbildungswerk and Junge Humanist_innen Berlin, leading workshops on sustainability, communication, gender equality and empowerment. These are themes that also guide her journalistic work.

Fascinated by artistic forms of expression, particularly music, dance and theatre, she believes that politics, social (in)justice and systemic interconnections must be made tangible in order to bring about transformation. That is why, at futur eins, she focuses on the Kiezöffentlichkeiten and the Gelöst oder Gequetscht projects.

Through painting and writing, she has found her own forms of expression and aims to tackle serious topics with a lighter touch. In her personal life, she is currently trying to unlearn certain things so she can explore them anew, and believes that this deconstructivist approach would also do us good on a societal level.

Why does she work at futur eins? Because the world is constantly changing, and all we can do is influence the direction it takes.