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.

Biography Tempel was born in Bayreuth, a town in the Free State of Bavaria. She studied history, political science and Jewish studies at LMU Munich, prior to receiving a scholarship in New York between 1989 and 1991. She gained a PhD from the University of the Bundeswehr Munich where she served as an assistant to Michael Wolffsohn. In 2003, she was a recipient of the Quadriga award.

Tempel was a reporter for the publications Profil, Facts and Der Tagesspiegel, among others. 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.

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.