enduring the heat wave in germany

I live in an apartment that first gets heated up on one side before noon, then later from the other side. My kitchen is especially hot each year because it has a huge bay window with no shutters installed. My strategies for keeping cool have been to air out everything at night, and if possible draw in and circulate air via a fan during some of it. Then as soon as the sun is coming up, closing windows, lowering the existing outside shutters so the sun can’t heat up the glass or insides, and always keeping the kitchen door closed so the heat is contained within. I avoid opening the windows during the day to not let heat in, except if I really need fresh air or the humidity is too high. Humidity is the thing that is wrecking us the most in this, which is why it is often futile to ask people elsewhere how they deal with these high temperatures when those people live in very dry climates. The humidity messes with your body’s ability to exude heat, and in worst case, results in the wet bulb…