Alexander Sängerlaub is Minister of the Future 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 constructs the topics on which he works: in 2017-2021, he helped build up the “Strengthening the digital public sphere” area at the Berlin think tank Stiftung Neue Verantwortung (now: Interface), where he 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 by SWR and the University of Tübingen together with Anna-Katharina Meßmer and Leonie Schulz in 2022.

In 2014, he founded the utopian political magazine Kater Demos and was Head of Editing & Creation until 2019. The magazine was Germany's first constructive political magazine. Prior to that, he was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg and the Free University of Berlin in journalism and communication studies. He worked for the Berlin agency Blumberry in 2013-2014, including on Angela Merkel's parliamentary election campaign.

As director of futur eins, he repeatedly provides strategic support to other organizations over longer periods of time: in 2024, he conceived the programme “Fake Train” with Rezo together with the Federal Agency for Civic Education. In 2022, he returned to constructive journalism as “Programme Director Future of Journalism” for the Bonn Institute. In 2021, he supported reset.tech and its analyses and campaigns against disinformation in the German parliamentary election campaign.

Resilience of the information society, disinformation, information and news literacy, constructive journalism: He is in demand as a speaker on these topics (e.g. Goethe-Institutes San Francisco & Seattle, 1014 New York City, Streitraum, re:publica (2022, 2023), ARD/ZDF Medienakademie, SWR, MDR, Max Planck Society), or as a moderator (e.g. EU Commission & dpa) and expert (e.g. German Bundestag).

He studied journalism, psychology and political communication at the Free University in Berlin and has taught at the University of the Arts, the Berlin University of Applied Sciences, the University of Tübingen, the Bundeswehr University in Munich and also at the Free University of Berlin. His never-written dissertation entitled “Who needs journalists when you can have robots?” on journalism and artificial intelligence was always interrupted by life (aka Kater Demos). As a child, he actually wanted to become a music journalist and VJ for MTV.