Sylke Tempel

Sylke Tempel
Tempel in 2012
Born(1963-05-30)30 May 1963
Bayreuth, Bavaria, West Germany
Died5 October 2017(2017-10-05) (aged 54)
Tegel, Berlin, Germany
Occupation(s)Writer, journalist
Years active1993–2017

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 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]

References

  1. ^ a b "Sylke Tempel, German journalist killed during Xavier storm". Deutsche Welle. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  2. ^ "German journalist Sylke Tempel dies in storm". Politico Europe. 7 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  3. ^ "Dr. Sylke Tempel". Stanford University. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Politik-Expertin Sylke Tempel bei Unwetter ums Leben gekommen" (in German). Bayerischer Rundfunk. 6 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  5. ^ "Sylke Tempel ist tot". Jüdische Allgemeine (in German). 7 October 2017. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
  6. ^ Jüdische Allgemeine (19 November 2020). "Israel und Deutschland im US-Wahljahr" (in German). Retrieved 2 July 2021.
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