Michael Seemann (ctrl-verlust.net), born in 1977, studied cultural sciences at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. He started several blog projects like twitkrit.de, a blog about twitter literature and wir.muessenreden.de, a popular podcast about politics. Since 2010 he has been running the blog “CTRL-Verlust”, first at Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and since September independently. He lives in Berlin, writing about what he calls the “Kontrollverlust” on his blog and in several media like the RollingStone, ZEIT Online, Heise c’t and DU Magazin.