At the time of her death, she had been the editor-in-chief of the foreign policy magazine Internationale Politik since 2008.

[1] She gained a PhD from Bundeswehr University Munich where she served as an assistant to Michael Wolffsohn.

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.

Since 2008, she had been the editor-in-chief of Internationale Politik, the magazine of the German Council on Foreign Relations.

[4] The German-Israeli Future Forum Foundation named their Sylke Tempel Fellowship under the auspices of Sigmar Gabriel and Tzipi Livni after her.