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

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for the German TV-magazine Spiegel-TV for a number of years, as well as for

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and NDR. 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 ''Baltic Storm'' is a 2003 film written and directed by Reuben Leder about the 1994 MS ''Estonia'' disaster. Based on the book ''Die Estonia: Tragödie eines Schiffsuntergangs'' by German journalist Jutta Rabe, the film focuses on the suppose ...

''. 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,

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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 {{Germany-journalist-stub