diff --git a/AMDiS/src/AdaptInstationary.cc b/AMDiS/src/AdaptInstationary.cc
index aa5cf03549dbd773ac52b7923050dcc466e643de..6adba249179ae0d36e6116c106acdf904c446a3f 100644
--- a/AMDiS/src/AdaptInstationary.cc
+++ b/AMDiS/src/AdaptInstationary.cc
@@ -400,6 +400,10 @@ namespace AMDiS {
     Parameters::get(aName + "->queue->runtime", queueRuntime);
     Parameters::get(aName + "->queue->serialization filename", 
 		    queueSerializationFilename);
+#ifdef HAVE_PARALLEL_DOMAIN_AMDIS
+    // debug output only on rank 0
+    if (MPI::COMM_WORLD.Get_rank() != 0) dbgMode=false;
+#endif
   }