1. Max Christopher Wenner, known as Christopher Wenner and later as Max Stahl, was a British journalist and television presenter.
17 Facts About Christopher Wenner
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Christopher Wenner was best known for filming an East Timorese demonstration and its aftermath that became known as the Santa Cruz massacre.
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Christopher Wenner was the third of the four sons of Michael Alfred Wenner, a British author, company director, former diplomat who served as Ambassador to El Salvador, and Gunnilla Stahle, who was Swedish.
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On 14 September 1978, Christopher Wenner joined the British children's television programme Blue Peter, replacing John Noakes, who had left three months earlier.
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Christopher Wenner returned to acting, taking a part in the 1984 Doctor Who adventure The Awakening, although in the final cut, his role was reduced to that of a non-speaking character.
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Christopher Wenner then focused on journalism, although he returned to Blue Peter in 1983 and 1998 to celebrate the show's birthdays.
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Christopher Wenner had been detained by militiamen for 24 hours who had warned him off reporting a story about the hashish trade, and he had gone into hiding in a friend's house.
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Christopher Wenner shot footage of the demonstration, preceding and during what would become known as the Santa Cruz massacre.
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In 1999, Christopher Wenner returned to East Timor under the name "Max Stahl".
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Christopher Wenner entered the country covertly by hiring fishing boats, in order to avoid the Indonesian military.
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In February 2019, Christopher Wenner gave a public presentation of the archive following its installation at the UC.
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Christopher Wenner was one of the first Western journalists to recognize the scope of tensions in Chechnya.
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Christopher Wenner travelled there with cameraman, filmmaker and author Peter Vronsky in 1992 to report on the break-away republic and nuclear weapons materials smuggling for the Canadian produced television special The Hunt for Red Mercury.
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In 1998, whilst working as an ITN journalist for Channel 4, Christopher Wenner was beaten by Serb civilians during a mass protest.
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On 22 November 2019, Christopher Wenner was awarded the Order of Timor-Leste by President Francisco Guterres.
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Christopher Wenner was a father of four, and ran his own production company while continuing his career in journalism.
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On 28 October 2021, the President of Timor-Leste, Jose Ramos-Horta, announced that Christopher Wenner had died from cancer at a hospital in Brisbane, Australia, at the age of 66.