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Eckhard Supp, Dr. phil., (born August 23, 1950 at Bad Ems, Germany) is a German non-fiction author, journalist, photographer and wine critic.

Biography
From 1969 to 1975, Eckhard Supp studied Pedagogics, Political Science, History, Philosophy and Sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main ( Germany). In 1985 he took a doctoral degree (Dr. phil.) in sociology with a thesis on Australia's aborigenes (Australiens Aborigines - Ende der Traumzeit).

In 1975/76 he collaborated in the compilation of an index & glossary for the complete edition of German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.

From 1977 to 1984 he lived and worked as a freelance photographer and journalist in Paris (France), where he cooperated with the French photo agency Rapho. From 1984 to 1989 he lived in Rome (Italy). His photoreportages took him to numerous European countries as well as to Angola, South Africa, Namibia, Australia, Mauritius, the Seychelles, the United States and Chile. His photographs were exhibited at Paris, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Naples, Rome and in the USA (Indiana University, Bloomington).

Since 1986 Eckhard Supp writes among other topics about food and wine. In 1992 he founded the publishing house of ENO Verlag, specialized in wine publications.

From 2003 to 2009 he was the editor and main author of two special volumes on wine and cooking for The Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, Germany's most renowned encyclopedia.

In 2005 he was editor in chief for two cooking magazines, "essen & trinken" and "schöner essen" at Gruner + Jahr publishers.