Berlin: Where was JFK's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech given?

He was standing in front of the Berlin Wall, right with the Brandenburg gate behind him.
See photo here: https://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/K_R3l2jkW061dm2h_3icTg.aspx
Lots of other people made speeches at the same spot, Kennedy's speech is not as significant to Germans as it has become US-Americans. More important is the day the wall came down.

There are brass plaques set into the road surface throughout Berlin that show where the wall ran. But to stand exactly where Kennedy was involves standing in the middle of a busy road. The gate itself is now pedestrianised.

Modern view of same spot. The podium would have been in the bottom right corner of the photo: http://static.apps.morgenpost.de/redaktion/luftbilder/foto_56.jpg

I always understood it was from Schöneberg's City Hall. This would be a picture of Kennedy giving the speech with the square jam-packed.

I think it was Reagan who made his speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate, and Kennedy made his at Schoneberg town hall.

I think Tom is correct. It was Reagan who made his "Tear down this wall" speech in front of Brandenburg Gate.

And how to get there? U-Bahn to Rathaus Schöneberg or Bayerischer Platz.

Kennedy's speech is not as significant to Germans as it has become US-Americans.

I beg to disagree. I don't know how important Kennedy's speech is for Americans, but it is deeply rooted in the historical memory of Germans, far more than the many years later given speech of R. Reagan. I still remember the TV broadcast (I was fourteen in 1963). Because private TV was not so common back then everyone gathered at the local inn. And when Kennedy had said that sentence, there was no one who did not break into either cheers or tears. And it also had an important long-term effect, because it contributed to silence the skepticism about the political binding to the west, which was still wide spread among social democrats.

The speech on the steps of the Rathaus Schöneberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUaqIOwmRm8.

It's simply amazing. Lucius Clay, who gets a cheer from the Germans at the beginning, was one of the primary reasons West Berlin still stood as a free entity where JFK could give a speech. He pushed Truman to embrace the Berlin Airlift in 1948 and to ignore nearly all of his Washington advisors who advised that West Berlin was not worth saving. He pushed JFK to confront the Russians/East Germans on the ability of the American army to freely cross the East/West Berlin border at Checkpoint Charlie, leading to the October 1961 tank standoff at the checkpoint. He firmly believed that if an inch was given to the Soviet Union in Berlin, the western part of the city would fall to Communism, then West Germany, and then western Europe. Clay Allee is his memorial in Berlin. If there are others, I am unaware of them.

The plaque on the Rathaus Schöneberg commemorating the speech: https://www.dhm.de/lemo/bestand/objekt/gedenktafel-fuer-john-f-kennedy-am-rathaus-schoeneberg-2013.html

The interior of the building looks like it is unchanged from the 1960's and is a treasure in itself.

At the back of the building is the exhibition entitled Wir waren Nachbarn (We were neighbors). It has 159 biographical sketches of Schöneberg's Jewish residents (including Albert Einstein) who were impacted by the National Socialist regime. Some were murdered in death camps; some emigrated; some (children) were sent to other countries to live with family members. The exhibition is German, but there are some biographies that have been translated into English -- just ask the lady at the desk!

Eugene, if you are going to Berlin, there is a little Kennedy museum there, where you can see lots of pictures and video regarding the famous speech.

I was in Berlin that summer staying with my grandparents. We listened to the speech on the radio. Berliners were thrilled with the speech and with Kennedy. They spoke about it for years. It was a big deal to the Germans and especially to Berliners at the time. Recall that the barbed wire (stacheldraht) and checkpoints were fairly new at that time. We watched as the East Germans worked on putting in mine fields, gun towers, more wire and eventually concrete walls. The wire was literally 30 yards from my grandfathers summer garden so we watched the progress every day. Sometimes we heard shooting at night... Kennedy's presence and speech were a really big deal and a reminder that even though the city and families were divided, Berlin had not been abandoned by the US. How often does a US president call himself a doughnut?

A special thanks to the German posters from me for sharing your experience of this. It's remarkably fascinating to me to hear individuals' personal stories regarding historical events... thanks for sharing yours!

Just got back after a month over there. Thanks for all the responses to my inquiry. Found the site easy enough, thanks to you all.

to be exact, a jelly donut.