Austria

Temmel, Seywald & Partner
Since 1991, Temmel, Seywald & Partner has been a leader in developing innovative, complex and integrated public relations strategies for blue-chip companies and public institutions in the German speaking countries. With offices in Vienna, Zurich & Berlin and partners in Europe, the agency offers unique communication services for both public and corporate demands in the major media saturated markets, or those now developing further to the East.

The agency has conceived cross-media communications campaigns for private and public institutions, with national campaigns like the ‘Year of Tolerance’ (1995), the ‘Year of Lifelong Learning’ (1998) and the initiative ‘Austria on the Internet’ (1999) as highlights. The latest government campaigns were ‘Was Europa bewegt’ (2003), ‘Bildung zum Erfolg’ (2004) and ‘Starke Marken – Starke Regionen’ (2005-2009), and Genuss Region Österreich (2009).

Dr. Wilfried Seywald studied Communications and Politics at the University of Vienna.  After working for 5 years as journalist and foreign correspondent for the Austria Press Agency, he founded the agency in 1991 together with Dr. Franz Temmel. He also founded the pressetext news agency in 1999. Wilfried’s expertise is in coordination and team management for national and international PR and media projects and in media relations, PR, sponsorship, network creation and network management. He is fluent in German and English.

Dr. Gert Cichini studied Communication and Media Studies at the University of Vienna in 1985. He was a music manager, worked in popular food companies and established his own advertising agency and was a freelance PR consultant.