Actually, after trying a lot more I figured out that it was actually something quite simple I just forgot.
Apart from the code in the comment.php, you also have to change this in your single.php:
<?php comments_template(); ?>
to
<?php comments_template('', true); ?>
And that did the trick!
I leave this here for future reference for others who might have run into the same problem.
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