She had won the jungle camp, and in the mayoral election in Brandenburg’s Oberkrämer, former “wheel of fortune” fairy Maren Gilzer only got 6.1 percent of the votes. That’s not enough for the runoff.
Oberkrämer – The “Wheel of Fortune” fairy and ex-jungle queen Maren Gilzer is not in the runoff election for the election of the mayor in Oberkrämer in Brandenburg. According to the preliminary result, the 61-year-old received 6.1 percent of the votes, as the independent municipality in the district of Oberhavel reports on the website.
The 54-year-old police officer Wolfgang Geppert (BVB/free voters) received 32.7 percent of the votes, the 32-year-old lawyer and deputy mayor Carolin Schmiel (Bürger für Oberkrämer/BfO) got 25.5 percent. This puts you in the runoff election on February 13.
Gilzer had applied for the post for the FDP. The 61-year-old became known in the 1990s as “letter fairy” in the Sat.1 program “Glücksrad”. In 2015 she was voted jungle queen by viewers on the RTL reality show “I’m a star – get me out of here”.
Mayor Peter Leys (BfürO) is retiring on March 1 after around 14 years in office. The municipality of Oberkrämer is an amalgamation of seven villages with around 12,000 inhabitants. Voter turnout was 49.3 percent. dpa
