Patrick Rohr

Patrick Rohr (born May 4, 1968, in Glarus) is a former Swiss TV presenter. He currently is the director of his own communications consulting firm in Zurich and additionally works as a photographer.

Life
Patrick Rohr was born on May 4, 1968, in Glarus, Switzerland. He grew up in Zermatt, Netstal and Brig. He graduated from the Gymnasium in Brig and went on to study Germanistics, Media Studies and Political Science for six semesters at the University of Bern. From 1992 to 2007 Rohr worked as editor and host for various shows on Swiss television. Today he is head of his own communications consulting firm (Patrick Rohr Kommunikation GmbH) in Zurich. Rohr lives together with his husband in Zurich and Amsterdam. They married August 27, 2009.

Journalism
Rohr first ventured into journalism at the age of 14, when he wrote articles for the Jugendforum in the newspaper Glarner Nachrichten and worked as a reporter for the local section of the paper.

After his family moved to Brig in the canton Valais in 1983, Rohr ran the Jugendforum for the Walliser Spiegel, a weekly insert of the Walliser Boten, while writing for the local section of the paper. He also hosted the weekly Hitparade and the youth broadcast radio-aktiv for the local broadcaster Radio Matterhorn in Zermatt.

During his studies Rohr worked as an freelancing journalist for the SonntagsZeitung, the Blick and the Walliser Boten. In 1990 he was part of the founding team of the local broadcaster Radio Rottu in Upper Valais, where he worked as an editor and host for two years after dropping out of university.

In 1992 he moved to work as editor and host on the daytime television show TAF of the Schweizer Fernsehen in Zurich. In 1994 he started working for the informational magazine Schweiz aktuell, which he started hosting in 1995.

On November 1, 1999, Rohr replaced Filippo Leutenegger as the host and lead editor on the political broadcast Arena. August 23, 2002 he became the successor for Röbi Koller as host of the society magazine «Quer». He hosted this magazine until its cancellation in March 2007.

Rohr founded his own company Patrick Rohr Kommunikation GmbH in February 2007. His company focuses on communication strategies, media training, courses in public speaking and rhetoric, and journalistic products.

From February 2012 to December 2015 Rohr attended and completed a programme on documentary and portrait photography at the Fotoacademie Amsterdam. His multimedia graduation project was called Bloody Serious - Trying To Understand The Difficult Search For A Ukrainian Identity. Today he is working as a photojournalist for Helvetas, Glückskette, Ruedi Lüthy Foundation, Support Network, among others, and also travels to various countries, especially in Africa and Asia, for freelance products (i.e. documentary Fokus Japan).

Other work
From 2007 to 2014 Rohr produced and hosted the debate programme Basler Zeitung Standpunkte on SRF1's PresseTV.

He trained journalists in interview techniques at the Media Training Centre in Lucerne from 2005 to 2011.

Rohr was involved in the campaign Aktion Füreinander on behalf of the AIDS-Hilfe Schweiz.

Awards

 * 1997: Award for Best up-and-coming presenter in the German-speaking world in Bremen
 * 2007: TELE audience award for Beliebtester Fernsehmoderator der Schweiz (Most popular TV host in Switzerland)

Publications

 * Reden wie ein Profi: Selbstsicher auftreten - im Beruf, privat, in der Öffentlichkeit. [Speaking Like a Pro: Appearing Confident - at Work, in Private and in Public] (in German), Beobachter-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-85569-398-6
 * So meistern Sie jedes Gespräch. Mutig und souverän argumentieren – im Beruf und privat. [How to master every conversation: Debate Bravely and Confidently - at Work and in Private] (in German), Beobachter-Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-85569-424-2
 * Erfolgreich präsent in den Medien – Clever kommunizieren als Unternehmen, Verein, Behörde. [Successfully present in media - Communicating cleverly as a company, a club, authority] (in German), Beobachter-Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-85569-464-8
 * Japan – Abseits von Kirschblüten und Kimono. [Japan - Away from Cherry Blossoms and Kimono] (in German), Beobachter-Edition, 2011, ISBN 978-3-03875-063-5
 * Die neue Seidenstrasse. Chinas Weg zur Weltmacht: Eine fotojournalistische Reise. [The New Silk Road. China's Path to World Power: A Photojournalistic Journey] (in German), Orell Füssli Verlag, Zürich 2021, ISBN 978-3-280-05731-5