Overview
- DWDL.de confirmed the departure, ending a run of more than ten years and nearly 400 episodes since the show's first season.
- Longtime co-presenter Melissa Khalaj will take over as sole host from the upcoming season with no additional replacement planned.
- Filming for the next season is scheduled to begin in November at Studio Berlin-Adlershof.
- Schölermann will remain part of The Voice of Germany and will front a new ProSieben music show, Staying Alive – Stars singen mit Legenden, recorded in Cologne.
- He frames the move as a shift toward more family time and entrepreneurial pursuits following his earlier step back from ProSieben's taff.