Photo: DPAMarko Steidel waited years for the chance to become the Apple Queen of Guben. It has elected its own Apple Queen at the town's Applefest each autumn since 1995. So the local tourism authority, desperate to ensure that Guben would once again have an Apple Queen, opened the competition up to men. “Anyone who occupies the office of Apple Queen needs to have a driver’s license, that’s how I see it,” he added. The tourism office’s lawyer responded that possessing a driver’s licence is not a condition for becoming the Apple Queen.

Source: The Local August 23, 2017 10:30 UTC