Winterscheidt and Heufer-Umlauf also provided demands Golden Kamera had to agree to in order to have “Ryan Gosling”; he would not walk the red carpet or talk to the host beforehand, he would be surrounded by private security and his presence at the ceremony would not be announced until the broadcast.
After Ludwig Lehner left the stage, the host of the ceremony simply said, “Sorry, there’s been a mistake.”
It turns out this was a prank plotted by German comedians Joko Winterscheidt and Klaas Heufer-Umlauf (both of whom Faux Gosling thanked in his brief speech) for their TV show Circus Halligalli.
Clearly nothing about this sounded strange to the Golden Kamera people because they completely fell for the ruse, and the result is the moment seen above.