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.