Sylke Tempel

Sylke Tempel (30 May 1963 – 5 October 2017) was a German writer and journalist. At the time of her death, she had been the editor-in-chief of the foreign policy magazine Internationale Politik since 2008.

Sylke Tempel
Tempel in 2012
Born	(1963-05-30)30 May 1963 Bayreuth, Bavaria, West Germany
Died	5 October 2017(2017-10-05) (aged 54) Tegel, Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)	Writer, journalist
Years active	1993–2017

Biography

Tempel was born in Bayreuth, a town in the Free State of Bavaria. She studied history, political science and Jewish studies at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, prior to receiving a scholarship in New York between 1989 and 1991.^[1] She gained a PhD from Bundeswehr University Munich where she served as an assistant to Michael Wolffsohn.^[1] Beginning her journalistic career in 1993, she worked in Israel as a Middle East correspondent. While there, she covered a range of events such as the Oslo I Accord, the Intifada and the assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1995.^[2] In 2003, she was a recipient of the Quadriga award.^[3]

Tempel in October 2010

Tempel was a reporter for the publications Profil, Facts and Der Tagesspiegel, among others.^[4] She also wrote a number of young adult novels, published by Rowohlt Berlin, a part of the company Rowohlt. Since 2008, she had been the editor-in-chief of Internationale Politik, the magazine of the German Council on Foreign Relations.^[5]

Tempel's grave at Friedhof Heerstraße in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf

Tempel lived in Berlin with her female partner. In 2017, she died in Tegel during Storm Xavier when she was struck by a falling tree. She was 54. She is buried at Friedhof Heerstraße in Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Berlin.^[4]

Commemoration

The German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation named their Sylke Tempel Fellowship under the auspices of Sigmar Gabriel and Tzipi Livni after her.^[6]