diff --git a/BaseLib/LogogSimpleFormatter.h b/BaseLib/LogogSimpleFormatter.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..9c1fa64b74a9e9928294aa283908d31859dd46a8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/BaseLib/LogogSimpleFormatter.h
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+/**
+ * Copyright (c) 2012, OpenGeoSys Community (http://www.opengeosys.com)
+ *            Distributed under a Modified BSD License.
+ *              See accompanying file LICENSE.txt or
+ *              http://www.opengeosys.com/LICENSE.txt
+ *
+ *
+ * \file LogogSimpleFormatter.h
+ *
+ * Created on 2012-09-13 by Lars Bilke
+ */
+
+#ifndef LOGOGSIMPLEFORMATTER_H
+#define LOGOGSIMPLEFORMATTER_H
+
+// ** INCLUDES **
+#include "logog.hpp"
+
+namespace BaseLib {
+/**
+ * \brief LogogSimpleFormatter strips file name and line number from logog output.
+ * See http://johnwbyrd.github.com/logog/customformatting.html for details.
+ **/
+class LogogSimpleFormatter : public logog::FormatterMSVC
+{
+
+	virtual TOPIC_FLAGS GetTopicFlags( const logog::Topic &topic )
+	{
+	return ( logog::Formatter::GetTopicFlags( topic ) &
+		~( TOPIC_FILE_NAME_FLAG | TOPIC_LINE_NUMBER_FLAG ));
+	}
+
+};
+
+#endif // LOGOGSIMPLEFORMATTER_H
+
+} // namespace BaseLib
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diff --git a/Gui/main.cpp b/Gui/main.cpp
index b6d1aedc76c01ded5625073d125cceeda948f5fd..f094c289bb548ad87d0706d327fa5407715ace88 100644
--- a/Gui/main.cpp
+++ b/Gui/main.cpp
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 #include <OpenSG/OSGBaseFunctions.h>
 #endif
 #include "logog.hpp"
+#include "LogogSimpleFormatter.h"
 
 int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 {
@@ -13,6 +14,8 @@ int main(int argc, char* argv[])
 #endif
 	LOGOG_INITIALIZE();
 	logog::Cout* logogCout = new logog::Cout;
+	BaseLib::LogogSimpleFormatter formatter;
+	logogCout->SetFormatter(formatter);
 	QApplication a(argc, argv);
 	setlocale(LC_NUMERIC,"C");
 	MainWindow* w = new MainWindow();