Abstract: A gas turbine includes a supporting structure which concentrically surrounds a hot gas path and is shielded with respect to the hot gas path by an annular heat shield (15?), which heat shield (15?) includes a multiplicity of segments which are arranged one behind the other in a circumferential direction and which in each case butt against one another in the circumferential direction so as to form a gap, seals (16?), being arranged for sealing off the gaps between the segments butting against one another, the seals having thin elongate sealing strips (23), which are accommodated in corresponding sealing slots (19), delimited transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction by a wall (25), in the mutually opposite end faces of the segments of the heat shield (15?) which butt against one another.