It's not an official statement, but after sent a mail to Daserste, i received this reply today
"From September on, Thore Schölermann will have a break of four months from "Verbotene Liebe" to concentrate on other projects.".

This means, that we will not see him from approximately December till March 2013 in VL. ( due to the 3 months of decalage beween the filming and broadcasting )