Paul Alfred Kleinert is a German writer, editor and translator.
Kleinert was born in Leipzig in 1960 with family roots in Silesia and Danzig.
He studied theology and did theological and celtic studies in East Berlin at Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (HU Berlin) and West Berlin at Freie Universität Berlin (Free University of Berlin, FU Berlin), Edinburgh at University of Edinburgh and Dublin.
His main areas of interest are poetry, short stories and translation from classical languages.
He lives and works in Kreuzberg in Berlin since 1986.