| Sylke Tempel | |
| Birth Date: | 30 May 1963 |
| Birth Place: | Bayreuth, Bavaria, West Germany |
| Death Place: | Tegel, Berlin, Germany |
| Occupation: | Author, journalist |
| Years Active: | 1993–2017 |
Sylke Tempel (30 May 1963 – 5 October 2017) was a German author and journalist. At the time of her death, she had been the editor-in-chief of the foreign policy magazine Internationale Politik since 2008.
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 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 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]
The German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation named their Sylke Tempel Fellowship under the auspices of Sigmar Gabriel and Tzipi Livni after her.[6]