Die Hütte is based on an extract from the novel Alte Meister (Old Masters) by Thomas Bernhard. Among other things, the fragment tells about a small village (near Freiburg) in the Black Forest, where in 1922 Heidegger let himself build a hut. This hut is still in the possession of the Heidegger family, but inaccessible to the public. The film might be seen as a portrait of this hut, including images from the surroundings, like for example those picturing Germany’s first ski slope. Besides the presence of the hut – where Heidegger wrote Sein und Zeit (Being and Time) and entrenched himself just after WWII – and by means of a voice-over (Bernhards text), Heidegger’s character and philosophy, and the culture that nurtured both, are being literally ridiculised.