At around 2:25 am on Sunday, Wilson Gonzalez Ochsenknecht was on the Reeperbahn in Hamburg when a young man reportedly "antanzte" him and stole his mobile phone near Talstrasse. The perpetrator evidently turned out to be so awkward that his victim noticed the theft. Ochsenknecht confronted the dancer and demanded his cell phone back.
The police and federal police had carried out a joint operation against trick and pickpockets in the Hamburg entertainment district on the night of Sunday. In this context, there were nine arrests, including the 20-year-old, who is said to have "danced" another person before Ochsenknecht.
The 28-year-old Ochsenknecht is the son of actor Uwe Ochsenknecht ("Labaule & Erben") and his ex-wife Natascha. He became known in the role of Marlon in "The Wild Things", in which his father played along.