Break time: Audi Australia marketing and communications director Anna Burgdorf will step down from her role next month after 21 years with the company.

- Audi Australia will lose one of its fiercest advocates and the automotive public relations industry one of its most professional stalwarts, with the announcement that Anna Burgdorf has resigned from the German car-maker’s local arm.

- Ms Burgdorf told GoAuto that it was the hardest career decision she has ever made and one that she anguished over before accepting that she needed more time with her daughter Violet.

Audi loses Anna Burgdorf

PR chief Anna Burgdorf takes a break after 21 years as Audi’s public face