Moving Images for MARIEN APOTHEKE WIEN

The coronavirus pandemic has changed a lot for artists. Karin Somonitsch therefore commissioned the Viennese musician and songwriter to write a song for her pharmacy. The result was ‘filmed’ with illustrations by Cosima Reif.

The Abodeggn Song (Viennese for ‘pharmacy’) was written by ERNST MOLDEN in the Viennese dialect and recorded and produced with FIDEL PEUGEOT at the WALKING CHAIR Studio.

Top row: Fidel Peugeot, Karin Simonitsch & Ernst Molöden — Bottom row: Cosima Reif

The story in brief: a musician (Ernst) has a headache and goes to the Marien Apotheke pharmacy in Vienna. The lady with the strange hairstyle, i.e. the pharmacist, gives him a tincture. The musician drinks the medicine and lo and behold: he feels better again. He feels so good that he can sing and play music again. Now he is jumping and cheering like a young animal…

Vienna is the most beautiful city in the world. The Vienna skyline, featuring the Giant Ferris Wheel, St. Stephen’s Cathedral, St. Charles’s Church, the Naschmarkt and the Marien Apotheke.

All the characters in the short film are still motionless.

The legendary Marien Apotheke in Vienna and its manager, Karin Simonitsch

The musician with the ‘bad foot’ on his way to the pharmacy.

And once again, the musician can sing and dance. And whilst Ernst dances, Fidel plays a solo guitar on the recording…

And the rainbow balloon floats across the city in the Viennese sky.