Ich bin ein Berliner speech

E1580

The "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech is a famous 1963 address by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in West Berlin symbolizing American solidarity with the citizens of Berlin during the Cold War.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Statements Referenced by

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Ich bin ein Berliner speech canonical 3

Statements (50)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Cold War speech
political speech
public address
speech
addressesIssue Berlin Wall
NATO solidarity
Soviet bloc oppression
freedom versus tyranny
approximateAudienceSize 450000
audienceType public mass rally
broadcastOn newsreel
radio
television
cityDistrict Schöneberg
countryOfSpeaker United States of America
surface form: United States
date 1963-06-26
deliveredBy 35th President of the United States
John F. Kennedy
deliveredDuring John F. Kennedy
surface form: Kennedy presidency
famousLine Ich bin ein Berliner
famousLineLanguage German
famousLineMeaning I am a Berliner
genre rhetorical oratory
hasAftermath strengthened morale in West Berlin
hasSubject anti-communism
democracy
freedom
transatlantic alliance
historicalPeriod post–World War II Europe
historicalSignificance iconic moment of the Cold War
key episode in US–German relations
major symbol of US commitment to West Berlin
language English
German phrase
location Berlin
Germany
West Berlin
mediaType audio recording
film recording
partOf Kennedy's 1963 visit to West Germany
Kennedy's European tour of 1963
politicalContext Berlin Blockade
surface form: Berlin Crisis

Cold War
division of Germany
symbolizes American solidarity with West Berlin
defense of freedom
opposition to communism
support for West Germany
venue Rathaus Schöneberg
year 1963

Referenced by (3)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

John F. Kennedy notableSpeech Ich bin ein Berliner speech
Kennedy's European tour of 1963 notableEvent Ich bin ein Berliner speech
Cold War rhetoric hasNotableExample Ich bin ein Berliner speech