Christopher Wenner

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Christopher Wenner aka Max Stahl (2019)

Max Christopher Wenner (born December 6, 1954 ), also known as Max Stahl , is a British journalist and former television presenter.

life and work

Wenner grew up in Chile . He was the third of four sons of father Michael Alfred Wenner , the former British ambassador to El Salvador , and his first wife, the Swede Gunilla Ståhl.

By 1973, Wenner was at Stonyhurst College . In 1977 he graduated from Oxford University . He first worked as an actor and director.

From September 14, 1978, Wenner moderated the British children's television program Blue Peter , but left it again on June 23, 1980, as did co-host Tina Heath. The production company had decided not to renew Wenner's contract because he was "deeply unpopular" with viewers. In 1983 and 1998 Wenner appeared on Blue Peter's anniversary programs . Wenner got a role in the British science fiction series Doctor Who in 1984, but it was then cut to a role without a text. Wenner now focused on journalism.

In 1985 Wenner worked as a war correspondent in Beirut . There he was missing for 18 days, but then reappeared safe and sound.

Stahl's photo served as a model for the memorial to the Santa Cruz massacre

In 1991 Wenner photographed a funeral procession under the name Max Stahl in Dili , which turned into a peaceful demonstration against the Indonesian occupation of East Timor . Indonesian soldiers eventually used force against the East Timorese protesters in the Santa Cruz cemetery . At least 271 people died and 270 more disappeared. Wenner filmed the incidents. One of his photos, showing the wounded Leví Bucar Côrte-Real in the arms of another man, served as a model for the memorial that commemorates the Santa Cruz massacre in Dili . Wenner's report made the world public aware of the forgotten war in East Timor. The publication caused great outrage around the world.

Wenner was one of the first western journalists to deal with the conflict in Chechnya . Together with author, cameraman and filmmaker Peter Vronsky , he traveled there in 1992 to report on the separatist republic and the smuggling of nuclear weapons material for the Canadian television special, The Hunt for Red Mercury . In 1998, Wenner was an ITN reporter for Channel 4 and was beaten by Serbian civilians during a mass protest by 150,000 Kosovar Albanians . In 1999 Wenner supported Macedonian television stations in film production. Several short films were made about the Balkan conflict .

In 1999 Wenner was working in East Timor again when the country voted for independence from Indonesia in a referendum and a final wave of violence swept across the country. Wenner's reports of the kills and evictions were one of the reasons the United Nations dispatched the international intervention force INTERFET and took control of East Timor. Wenner is still known today under the name Max Stahl in East Timor.

Wenner has lived in East Timor since 2003, where he has his own production company, Centro Audiovisual Max Stahl Timor-Leste (CAMSTL), and continues to work as a journalist. CAMSTL also serves as an archive for the history of East Timor and a training center for East Timorese filmmakers with 3500 hours of film material . The documents of the archive on the independence of East Timor were included by UNESCO in 2013 as the only entry of East Timor into the world document heritage.

Wenner also shot in Latin America, worked with filmmakers in developing countries and wrote scripts for feature films.

Wenner has two children.

Awards

Francisco Guterres gave Wenner the Ordem de Timor-Leste

1992 was the Wenner Amnesty International UK Media Award for his report "Cold Blood - the Massacre of East Timor" in the series First Tuesday of Yorkshire Television . For his reporting on Hard News he received the Rory Peck Award in 2000 , and in 2006 the Order of Freedom of Portugal and various orders of East Timor. On November 22, 2019 Wenner was awarded the highest order in the country by East Timor's President Francisco Guterres with the Collar des Ordem de Timor-Leste . On December 9th, the national parliament of East Timor also granted Wenner citizenship.

Web links

Commons : Christopher Wenner  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sylvia Lawson: Demanding the Impossible S. 114, Melbourne Univ. Publishing, ISBN 978-0-522-85485-5 .
  2. ↑ a b IPS: Filmmaker Max Stahl Wants to Drive Away Past Devils, 2004
  3. ↑ a b c d e BBC: Christopher Wenner
  4. ↑ a b c d e Bloodshot - The Dreams and Nightmares of East Timor
  5. ^ Richard Marson, "Blue Peter" 50th Anniversary Book: The Story of Television's Longest-running Children's Program , Hamlyn Books, 2008, ISBN 978-0-600-61793-8
  6. ↑ Picture by Max Stahl ( Memento of the original from November 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.unesco-ci.org
  7. ^ East Timor: Monument to the Santa Cruz Massacre
  8. ↑ On the Birth of a Nation: Turning points | United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Retrieved March 26, 2017 (English).
  9. ↑ Reuters: 'Cold Blood' AI Winner ( Memento of the original from January 9, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , June 4, 1992 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.library.ohiou.edu
  10. ↑ Independent Television News : First Tuesday (Cold Blood: The Massacre of East Timor)
  11. ^ Constâncio Pinto , Matthew Jardine: East Timor's Unfinished Struggle: Inside the Timorese Resistance , pp. 270, 1997, South End Press, ISBN 978-0-89608-541-1
  12. ↑ President of East Timor: "Estadu Timor-Leste hato'o ninia rekoñesimentu ba buat hotu ne'ebé ita (Max Steel-red) halo ba ami-nia Rain no ami-nia Povu, hanesan jornalista, reporter funu nian, formadór, peskizadór , produtór films no istoriadór. Nu'udar defensór kauzas no valores! Ami haree ba ó hanesan kompañeiru ida, ne'ebé ami hotu presiza tebes iha prosesu tahan pasadu, prezente no futuru Timor-Leste nian! " , November 22, 2019 , accessed on November 22, 2019.
  13. ↑ TEmpo Timor: PN Aprova Sidadánia Timorense Ba Max Stahl , December 10, 2019 , accessed on December 10, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wenner, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wenner, Max Christopher (full name); Steel, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and former television presenter
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1954