In Germany, a simple transaction such as replacing your ID card can take weeks if not months, as the country’s public offices are notoriously backlogged and services have barely been digitalized. When performance artist Albrecht Fersch set up a small office on the beach of one of Germany’s North Sea islands last summer, his cheeky dig at the slow-moving cogs of the bureaucracy machine delighted large crowds every day. But ultimately the artist’s aim was to go beyond the sense or nonsense of bureaucracy, handing out forms that ask the really important questions in life, he told dpa for one of o…