Jutta Rabe (born 1955) is a German journalist and a former treasurer of the Berlin chapter of the
German Federation of Journalists.
Life
Jutta Rabe studied economy and journalism.
She worked as a
freelancer for the German TV-magazine
Spiegel-TV for a number of years,
as well as for
Focus TV,
ZDF
ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...
,
ARTE
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It is made up of three separate companies: the Strasbourg-based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE, pl ...
and
NDR
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Science and technology
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.
Her book, ''Die Estonia: Tragödie eines Schiffsuntergangs'' (, ), about the alleged cover-up of the true cause of the September 1994
M/S Estonia
MS ''Estonia'' was a cruiseferry built in 1980 at the West German shipyard Meyer Werft in Papenburg. In 1993, she was sold to Nordström & Thulin for use on Estline's Tallinn–Stockholm route. The ship's sinking on 28 September 1994, in the B ...
passenger ferry disaster, was made into the 2003 film ''
Baltic Storm''. The video footage of her group's diving expedition to the Estonia shipwreck allegedly reveals holes in the ship's hull, suggesting that explosives played a role in the tragedy. Spiegel-TV has dissociated itself from her coverage of the Estonia disaster.
In the summer of 2000,
Sweden issued an arrest warrant against Rabe for violating the sanctity of the shipwreck, in violation of the
Estonia Agreement of 1995, barring her from entering Sweden on pain of prosecution.
References
1955 births
Living people
German journalists
German women writers
German conspiracy theorists
MS Estonia
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