Sylke Tempel

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. She was born in Bayreuth. 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. 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 Rowohlt Verlag.

On 5 October 2017, she died in Tegel, a neighborhood of Berlin, during Storm Xavier when she was struck by a tree and died from her injuries. She was 54.

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