I ran into this aswell on Saucy.
Some hints in the upstream bug report helped me to find a work around, though:
Use dconf-editor, go to org/gnome/empathy/conversation and replace the "de" in 
"spell-checker-languages" with "de_DE". Seems to do the trick.

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  German spellchecking does not work

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